Sir Louis Henry Davies was a Canadian lawyer,businessman and politician,and judge from the province of Prince Edward Island. In a public career spanning six decades,he served as the third premier of Prince Edward Island,a federal Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister,and as both a Puisne Justice and the sixth Chief Justice of Canada.
Wallace Bernard Jefferson is a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas,who served from 2004 until October 1,2013. In October 2013,he joined the law firm Alexander Dubose &Jefferson LLP as a name partner and now practices appellate law.
Robert Harlan Henry is a former United States Circuit Judge and politician from Oklahoma,and was the 17th President of Oklahoma City University. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Henry formerly served as the Attorney General of Oklahoma from 1986 to 1991,before resigning early in his second term to become the dean of the Oklahoma City University School of Law,where he remained until 1994. President Bill Clinton appointed Henry as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit,a position he held until he resigned in 2010 to return to Oklahoma City University as president. He retired as President of Oklahoma City University in 2018,and has since worked as an attorney specializing in mediation,moot courts,and appellate advocacy.
Kathryn Louise Taylor was elected the 38th mayor of Tulsa,Oklahoma on April 4,2006,in the city's largest voter turnout for a mayoral election. She defeated Republican incumbent Mayor Bill Lafortune to become Tulsa's second female mayor,after Susan Savage first filled the post in 1992. Taylor is married to Bill Lobeck,CEO of Vanguard Automotive Group. Taylor served as Oklahoma Secretary of Commerce and Tourism in Governor Brad Henry's administration from 2003 to 2006. She resigned from that post in order to run for Mayor.
The Attorney General of Oklahoma is the State Attorney General for the state of Oklahoma. The attorney general serves as the chief legal and law enforcement officer of the State of Oklahoma and head of the Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General. The attorney general is responsible for providing legal advice to the other departments and agencies of the executive branch,legislative branch and judicial branch of the state government. The attorney general is also responsible for the prosecution of offenses against Oklahoma law and advocate for the basic legal rights of Oklahoma residents.
The government of the U.S. State of Oklahoma,established by the Oklahoma Constitution,is a republican democracy modeled after the federal government of the United States. The state government has three branches:the executive,legislative,and judicial. Through a system of separation of powers or "checks and balances," each of these branches has some authority to act on its own,some authority to regulate the other two branches,and has some of its own authority,in turn,regulated by the other branches.
Jari Askins is an American judge,lawyer and Democratic politician from the US state of Oklahoma. She was the 15th lieutenant governor of Oklahoma,being the second woman and the first female Democratic Party member to hold that position.
M. Susan Savage is an American Democratic politician from Oklahoma. She was the 36th Mayor of Tulsa from 1992 to 2002,the first woman to hold that office. From 2003 to 2011,she was the 29th Secretary of State of Oklahoma.
Marie Frankie Muse Freeman was an American civil rights attorney,and the first woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1964–79),a federal fact-finding body that investigates complaints alleging discrimination. Freeman was instrumental in creating the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights founded in 1982. She was a practicing attorney in State and Federal courts for nearly sixty years.
Susan Pia Graber is an American attorney and jurist. She is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. A native of Oklahoma,she was the 90th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 1990 to 1998. She served on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1988 to 1990.
Michael J. Hunter is an American politician from the state of Oklahoma. Hunter served as the Secretary of State of Oklahoma from 1999 to 2002,having been appointed by Governor of Oklahoma Frank Keating. On November 1,2016,he was appointed to the same post by Governor Mary Fallin. He also served as Special Counsel to the Governor. On February 20,2017,Hunter was appointed Attorney General of Oklahoma to replace Scott Pruitt who resigned to become the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. On November 8,2018,Hunter won election as Attorney General.
Miles Tolbert is an American lawyer from the state of Oklahoma who served as the Oklahoma Secretary of the Environment in the Cabinet of Governor Brad Henry. Tolbert was appointed by Henry in 2003 and served until his resignation in 2008. Tolbert was succeeded by J.D. Strong,Tolbert's chief of staff,as Secretary.
Jane P. Wiseman is an American judge. She currently sits on the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals,the intermediate appellate court of the state of Oklahoma.
G. T. Blankenship is an American lawyer and Republican politician from Oklahoma. A former member and minority leader of the Oklahoma House of Representatives,he initiated the investigation of corruption on the Oklahoma Supreme Court that resulted in the removal of three justices during the mid-1960s and changing the process by which future justices would be selected. Leaving the House to run for higher office,Blankenship served as the 10th attorney general of Oklahoma. After serving as attorney general,he entered private law practice in Oklahoma City and served two terms on the University of Oklahoma's board of regents.
Michael Craig Turpen is an American lawyer and politician from Oklahoma. A member of the Democratic Party,Turpen served as the Chairman of the Oklahoma Democratic Party and as the Attorney General of Oklahoma from 1983 to 1987. After leaving the Attorney General's Office,Turpen entered private practice.
Douglas L. Combs is an associate justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. He was appointed by Governor Brad Henry to the Oklahoma Supreme Court,effective January 1,2011,filling a vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Rudolph Hargrave. Combs was selected to become Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court,effective December 1,2016 and served until December 31,2018.
Noma D. Gurich is an American attorney and jurist who is serving as an associate justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Gurich was appointed the State's highest court by Governor Brad Henry in 2010 and assumed office on February 15,2011. Gurich was appointed to the Court following the death of long-time Justice Marian P. Opala. Gurich is the third woman in state history after Alma Wilson and Yvonne Kauger to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
Samuel W. Hayes (1875–1941) was born in Arkansas,and moved to Texas with his parents when he was a small child. He completed his basic education in Texas,then attended the University of Virginia. He apparently did not graduate,but his college experience sufficed to qualify him as a school teacher. He spent the next three years teaching in the community of Ryan in the Chickasaw Nation,then part of the Indian Territory. He also began studying law in a local law office and was admitted to the Territorial Bar in 1899.
Dana Lynn Kuehn is an American attorney and judge from Tulsa,Oklahoma who has served on the Supreme Court of Oklahoma since 2021;she was appointed by Governor Kevin Stitt on July 26,2021. Kuehn had previously been a Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Judge after her appointment by the Governor of Oklahoma Mary Fallin on October 2,2017. Kuehn is the first woman to serve on both of the state's high courts,the Oklahoma Supreme Court and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.
