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A woman votes early at the Oklahoma County Election Board, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. Oklahoma voters will decide who holds 32 seats in the Oklahoma House of Representatives in November.
Joy Lynn Hofmeister (née Janosky, born September 7, 1964) is an American educator and politician who served as the Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction from 2015 to 2023. On October 7, 2021, Hofmeister switched parties to run for the Democratic nomination in Oklahoma's 2022 gubernatorial election. She won the Democratic nomination and ...
Anatomical Board. Arts Council. Board of Private Vocation School. Commission for Teacher Preparation. Oklahoma State Department of Education. Oklahoma Department of Libraries. Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education. Oklahoma Educational Television Authority. Medical Technology and Research Authority.
The Department of Human Services provides a number of assistance programs to help Oklahomans by administering federal programs for food benefits and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; and the state's child welfare, developmental disabilities, aging, adult protective, and child support systems; and child care assistance, licensing and monitoring.
Terri L. White (born 1973) is chief executive officer of the nonprofit Mental Health Association Oklahoma, as of August 2020. She is an American social worker who resigned effective February 1, 2020 as Commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, a position she has held since May 13, 2007.
The Secretary of Human Resources and Administration was responsible for providing services to help manage and support the basic functioning of all state agencies. These services included personnel management, central purchasing, state motor pool management, building maintenance and construction, as well as central printing and mailing.
The Department was established through the Mental Health Law of 1953, although publicly supported services to Oklahomans with mental illness date back to before statehood: the first facility in Oklahoma for the treatment of individuals with mental illness was established by the Cherokee Nation, called the Cherokee Home for the Insane, Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, it was built outside the city of ...
Ryan Walters (born May 23, 1985) is an American politician who has served as the elected Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction since 2023 and who served as the appointed Oklahoma Secretary of Education between September 2020 and April 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he has been a vocal critic of critical race theory, LGBT ...