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The Oklahoma Bar Association is governed by a 17-member Board of Governors, whose members are lawyers elected by OBA members and meet monthly. [2] Day-to-day operations are managed by an Executive Director and a staff of both attorneys and non-attorneys.
In 2018, Lee was recognized by the Oklahoma Bar Association by receiving the Fern Holland Courageous Lawyer Award. [28] He was featured in Oklahoma Magazine's 40 Under 40 for 2018 recognizing the "best the state has to offer in virtually all fields of business."
Susan Brimer Loving (born March 23, 1950) was Oklahoma's first female attorney general. She was appointed in 1991 after serving as both first assistant attorney general and chief of legal services in the Office of the Attorney General.
Susie Pritchett: [21] [22] First female lawyer hired by Oklahoma County's Public Defender's Office; Maxey Reilly: [37] First female judge in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma (2017) Vicki Behenna: [38] First female to serve as the District Attorney for Oklahoma County, Oklahoma (2022) Freddie "Fred" Andrews: [1] First female judge in Pontomac County ...
Mona Salyer Lambird (1938–1999) was an Oklahoma lawyer who became the first woman president of the Oklahoma Bar Association and the first woman elected to the Board of Governors of the Oklahoma Bar Association. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 1995.
First Native American (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) male (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, Northern District of Oklahoma, and Western District of Oklahoma): Michael Burrage (1974) beginning 1994 [25] [26] First African American male (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit): Jerome Holmes (1988) in 2006 [27]
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. [1] The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing (bar) to separate the area in which court or legal profession business is done from the viewing area for the general public or students of the law.
He passed the Oklahoma Bar examination in 1960. As an attorney, he provided free legal services for individuals unable to pay for representation. [3] In 1961, Porter served as president of the Oklahoma City National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. [4] He participated in protests and sit-ins with Clara Luper. [3]