About me
The Honorable Barbara Swinton was appointed to the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals on September 16, 2016. Judge Swinton currently serves as Chief Judge of the Court of Civil Appeals. She was elected as District Judge for Oklahoma County in November 2002 and served in that capacity until 2016. Prior to her election as District Judge, she served as a Special Judge from 1996 to 2002.
Judge Swinton has served as President of the Oklahoma County Bar Association, President of the Oklahoma Judicial Conference Executive Board, past Chairman of the Oklahoma Judges Association, the Oklahoma Bar Association Professionalism Committee, past Co-Chair of the OBA Bench and Bar Committee, the Oklahoma Bar Association Professionalism Committee, and has been awarded the Leadership in Law award from the Journal Record in 2007. In 2015 she was awarded the Mona Salyer Lambird Spotlight Award.
Judge Swinton also serves as an Adjunct Professor at OCU Law School in the areas of Pretrial Litigation and Trial Practice. She currently serves on the Oklahoma Bar Association Access to Justice, Women in Law, and Bench and Bar Committees, as well as a membership in the Oklahoma County and Cleveland County Bar Association.
Judge Swinton is a graduate of class 18 of Leadership Oklahoma City and class 22 of Leadership Oklahoma. Judge Swinton and her husband Charles, have three adult children, and two perfect grandchildren.
