Education
Graduate of Durant High School 1957.
Graduate of Southeastern Oklahoma State University, BA 1961.
Graduate of University of Oklahoma College of Law, 1965.
Memberships and Affiliations
Member of the Bryan County Bar Association, American Bar Association, Oklahoma Bar Association and served as a Trustee of the Oklahoma Bar Foundation.
Member of the Oklahoma Municipal League, Lawyers Division since 1995.
First Associate District Judge of Bryan County in January 1969;
Graduate of the National College for Trial Judges, University of Nevada, Reno, in 1969.
Admitted to practice in all Oklahoma courts, U.S. District Court Eastern District of
Oklahoma and Western District of Oklahoma, 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and United States Supreme Court; Sustaining member and Fellow of the Oklahoma Bar Foundation.
Fellow of the American Bar Foundation since 1996.
Served two terms on the Professional Responsibility Tribunal of the Oklahoma Bar
Association. Served two terms on the Board of Governors of the Oklahoma Bar Association 1993-95
and again on 1999-01; Trustee of Oklahoma Bar Foundation, 2004-2005. Served on the
Oklahoma Judicial Nominating Commission 1901-07 (serving as Chairman in 2007);
A founder of the Durant Youth Services, Inc. 1971.
Named as Southeastern Oklahoma State University’s Distinguished Alumni in 1997.
Member of St. John’s Episcopal Church.