Admitted
1982, Oklahoma and Oklahoma Supreme Court; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit and U.S. District Court, Western, Northern and Eastern Districts of Oklahoma; 1984, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 199
Law School
University of Oklahoma, J.D., secundum cum laude, 1982
Law School Graduation Year
1982
College
University of Oklahoma, B.A., 1979
Biographical
Order of the Coif. Member, Oklahoma Law Review Judiciary Committee, 1981 and Editorial Advisor, 1981-1982. Co-author: Civil Procedure Forms and Practice, Butterworth, 1987—; The Appellate Handbook for Oklahoma Lawyers, West Publishing Co., March 1999. Author: Constitutional Law: The Death Penalty: A Critique of The Philosophical Bases Held to Satisfy the Eighth Amendment Requirements for Its Justification, 34 Oklahoma Law Review 567, 1981; The 1991 Repeal of the 1990 Judgments and Appeals Act, 62 O.B.A.J. 2793, 1991. Member, Civil Procedure Committee, Oklahoma Bar Association (1994—). Appointed by Oklahoma Supreme Court Chief Justice Ralph Hodges in 1994 to serve on the Oklahoma Supreme Court Committee to Assist in Revising Rules of Appellate Procedure in Civil Cases, Rules of the Supreme Court and Rules on Practice and Procedure in the Court of Appeals and on Certiorari to the Court.