{{Short description|Judge of the Oklahoma Judicial District 14}} '''Sharon Holmes''' is a judge of the Oklahoma Judicial District 14.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Criminal Division |url=https://www.tulsacountydistrictcourt.org/criminal.html |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=www.tulsacountydistrictcourt.org}}</ref> She is the first black woman judge elected to Tulsa County.<ref>{{Cite web |last=On 6 |first=News |title=Tulsa County Judge Reacts To First Black Woman Nominated To SCOTUS |url=https://www.newson6.com/story/62199b5d34b31b072d2f7b04/tulsa-county-judge-reacts-to-first-black-woman-nominated-to-scotus |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=www.newson6.com |language=en}}</ref> Her current term ends in 2026.
== Career == Holmes worked for the Tulsa County District Attorney's office as an assistant district attorney and later "ventured into private practice". She was sworn in as a judge on 12 January 2015 after running against Blake Shipley.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cuomo |first=Lindsay |date=2015-04-23 |title=Oklahoma Magazine |url=https://okmag.com/blog/a-womans-world/ |access-date=2025-06-04 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Blake Shipley |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Blake_Shipley |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=Ballotpedia |language=en}}</ref> She replaced retired district judge Jesse Harris.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Correspondent |first=Ralph Schaefer TBLN |date=2015-09-23 |title=Judge Sharon Holmes: New job means new experiences |url=https://tulsaworld.com/archive/article_48e941a1-6353-5830-b477-739b89f56970.html |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=Tulsa World |language=en}}</ref> She retained her seat in 2018 by capturing 78.12 percent of the 8001 votes cast.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Fred |date=2018-11-08 |title=District Judge Sharon Holmes Retains Her Post |url=https://theokeagle.com/2018/11/08/district-judge-sharon-holmes-retains-her-post/ |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=The Oklahoma Eagle |language=en-US}}</ref>
Holmes supported the Biden nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, for the Supreme Court, the first Black woman to serve on the court.<ref>{{Cite web |last=On 6 |first=News |title=Tulsa County Judge Reacts To First Black Woman Nominated To SCOTUS |url=https://www.newson6.com/story/62199b5d34b31b072d2f7b04/tulsa-county-judge-reacts-to-first-black-woman-nominated-to-scotus |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=www.newson6.com |language=en}}</ref>
Holmes was also the first judge in Tulsa to hear an Oklahoma Survivors Act retroactive relief case (for resentencing) in Tulsa County.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Boblitt |first=Zach |date=2025-07-23 |title=Tulsa County holds first resentencing hearing under Oklahoma Survivor’s Act |url=https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/local-regional/2025-07-23/tulsa-county-holds-first-resentencing-hearing-under-oklahoma-survivors-act |access-date=2025-09-01 |website=Public Radio Tulsa |language=en}}</ref>
== Personal life == Holmes has a bachelor’s degree on an ROTC scholarship and spent six years in the Air Force. She attended Oklahoma City University. She is a mother.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cuomo |first=Lindsay |date=2015-04-23 |title=Oklahoma Magazine |url=https://okmag.com/blog/a-womans-world/ |access-date=2025-06-04 |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2019, she was hospitalized after being stabbed by her daughter.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-03-16 |title=Oklahoma judge stabbed in the leg, daughter is charged |url=https://apnews.com/general-news-fb63b08b9b844849980f5d21a690c9d0 |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Frontier |first=Dylan Goforth {{!}} The |date=2019-03-21 |title=Police videos show confusion in wake of alleged stabbing of Tulsa district court judge |url=https://www.enidnews.com/oklahoma/police-videos-show-confusion-in-wake-of-alleged-stabbing-of-tulsa-district-court-judge/article_d430eaf4-4be9-11e9-93b1-c7e74d85cdbd.html |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=Enidnews.com |language=en}}</ref>
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