The Hon. Martha Rupp Carter is a district judge for the Oklahoma Fourteenth Judicial District. She was elected to the bench on November 6, 2018.
Prior to her election, Carter was a special judge for the Tulsa County District Court, a position to which she was named in 2011. Before that, she spent time as general counsel for the Tulsa City-County Health Department (2004 to 2010).
Carter earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Oklahoma State University. She then completed a J.D. at the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1980.
After graduating from law school, Carter entered into private practice, working as an associate at Sonberg & Waddel. Then, in 1985, she joined the City of Tulsa Legal Department. She started as an assistant city attorney, rising through the ranks to become its Deputy City Attorney and its City Attorney (2000).
Her memberships have included the Tulsa County Bar Association (president) and the Tulsa County Bar Foundation (vice president). She also sat on the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Association of Municipal Attorneys and the Board of Governors of the Oklahoma Bar Association.
Raised in Oklahoma, Carter attended Perry High School. Her grandmother moved to the United States from Russia in 1922 while her grandfather, Lee Rupp, farmed near Perry. She is married to Lewis Carter. They have two daughters.