Judge David B. Lewis was born and raised in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and graduating in May 1976 from Ardmore High School. Governor Brad Henry appointed him as Judge on the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on August 4, 2005. He has served as Presiding Judge for 2013-2014; 2019-2020. Lewis earned a bachelor’s degree with high honors from the University of Oklahoma in 1980 and earned his law degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1983. He served four years as a Comanche County prosecutor, after four years in private practice. Lewis served as Comanche County Special Judge from 1991 to 1999. He was a District Judge for Comanche, Stephens, Jefferson and Cotton counties from 1999 to 2005. He formerly served as President of the Comanche County Bar Association. He has served as president of the Oklahoma Judicial Conference and is a fellow of the Oklahoma Bar Foundation. He is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Lewis was selected as a member of the Class of 2008 Henry Toll Fellowship Program of the Council of State Governments. He was inducted into the Order of the Owl at the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 2017. Lewis serves on the Board of Visitors of the University of Oklahoma College of Law, and is former co-chair of the Bench and Bar Committee of the Oklahoma Bar Association. Lewis serves as a volunteer reader at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School. Lewis has two children – a son, David Jr., and a daughter, Danielle. He is also the proud grandfather of three grandchildren Ava, Carter, and Claire Lewis. Lewis is the longest serving Afro-American Judge in Oklahoma History. Lewis also serves on the Board of Directors for Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma and served as chairman of Reach Out and Read Oklahoma.
