Joseph M. Watt

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Joseph M. Watt (born March 8, 1947), is currently a Justice on the Oklahoma Supreme Court, assuming that post in 1992, and was retained by the voters in 1994, 1996, and 2002. From 2003 to 2007, he served two terms as Chief Justice. In 2005, he was reelected to an unprecedented second term as Chief Justice, despite a federal age discrimination lawsuit filed by the Court's then-Vice Chief Justice Marian P. Opala, then 83 years old, …