John B. Turner (1860-1937) was an American attorney and one of the first justices appointed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court after statehood was granted in 1907.
He was named as Chief Justice and represented the First District (headquartered in Vinita, Oklahoma).
However, one news article noted that he had written a court opinion establishing that lands allotted by the government to former slaves (freedmen) in the Chickasaw nation were exempt from taxation.
By then (1914), Justice W. R. Bleakmore agreed with the Garvin judge and reversed Turner's earlier ruling.
[2] Justice Turner and his wife, Flora Belle, retired to Adams, Tennessee in 1930.