A justice on the Oklahoma Supreme Court recused herself this week from possibly hearing the legal challenge to the nearly $1 billion in ratepayer-backed bond effort by OG&E and the Oklahoma Development Finance Authority.
Justice Dana Kuehn filed her recusal Wednesday morning. It offered no explanation in the one-sentence filing.
“I hereby recuse myself from consideration of the above styled and numbered cause.” Signed: Justice Dana Kuehn
Click to the following link to see the Justice’s filing.
file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/1051378662-20220209-115330-.pdf
Justice Koehn has served on the Supreme Court less than one year. She was appointed by Gov. Kevin Stitt on July 26, 2021 and succeeded Tom Colbert, the first African American to serve on the court. He retired Feb. 1, 2021.
Previously she served as a judge for the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals from 2017 to 2021. She also had been a felony prosecutor with the Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office and served as an associate district judge of Tulsa County.
