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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.
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]
President of the American Bar Association (1974–1975) [2] James Davison Fellers (April 17, 1913 – April 3, 1997) founded the law firm of Fellers Snider in Oklahoma City in 1963. [ 3 ] Fellers served as the President of the Oklahoma Bar Association in 1964, and president of the American Bar Association from 1974 to 1975.
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]
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." In 2014, Freedom of Information Oklahoma, Inc. named the law firm of Ward, Lee, & Coats, PLC, Josh Lee, and Steve Fabian, as an honorable mention for the group Ben Blackstock Award. [ 29 ]
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She has served on the board of multiple civic organizations, and is a member of the Professional Responsibility Tribunal of the Oklahoma Bar Association. [citation needed] Loving is the author of "The Southwestern Bell Case: Policy, Politics or Lawmaking Gone Awry," Oklahoma City University Law Review, fall 1994. [1]
Daniel J. Boudreau (born 1947), a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of the University of Tulsa College of Law, is an Oklahoma attorney who was a justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court from 1999 to 2004. After retiring from the Supreme Court, he is now in private practice as a specialist in Alternative Dispute Resolution, which he has also ...