is a litigator and Director at Crowe & Dunlevy, where he is a member of the Labor and Employment, Litigation, and Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Groups. Chris is a former Deputy Attorney General with the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office where he led the agency’s Office of Civil Rights Enforcement.

has served as a Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma since September of 2017. Judge Jayne leads civics education initiatives for the court, with the help of our local FBA chapter. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she graduated Order of the Coif and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Oklahoma Law Review.

is a Partner at Brewster & DeAngelis whose practice focuses on medical malpractice, civil rights and document-intensive civil and criminal litigation in both state and federal court. Guy has been instrumental in developing and litigating cases that have resulted in several million-dollar awards ranging from medical malpractice, civil rights, personal injury to toxic torts and complex commercial litigation.e

is an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma. He serves in the appellate unit, handling appeals to the Tenth Circuit and consulting on written work product in the U.S. District Court. He is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center. He previously served as a law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and as a litigation associate at Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston, Massachusetts.

is an associate attorney at Crowe & Dunlevy, where he is a member of the bankruptcy and creditors rights and litigation and trial practice groups. He previously clerked for the Honorable Ronald A. White and the Honorable John F. Heil, III in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

is a partner at Hall Estill in Tulsa. Her practice consists of business and commercial litigation, and handling all aspects of employment law matters (employer-side). She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

is a graduate of the University of Tulsa College of Law, is licensed to practice in the State of Oklahoma and the Northern District of Oklahoma, and currently serves as the Supervisory Probation Officer for the Presentence Investigation Unit for the United States Probation Office in the Northern District of Oklahoma. In addition to his current role, Sean served as a visiting officer with United States Sentencing Commission Office of Education and Sentencing Practices where he assisted in developing national training programs and materials as well as provided support and advice related to the application of the United States Sentencing Guidelines to attorneys and courts across the country.

is an associate attorney at McAfee & Taft and a trial and appellate lawyer whose practice is focused on the resolution of a broad range of civil litigation matters, including complex business disputes, in state and federal courts and arbitration proceedings. Before joining McAfee & Taft, he served as a term judicial law clerk in the Western District of Arkansas.

is a litigator and co-founder of Hofland/Lollman in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His practice focuses on appeals, original proceedings, and critical motions in state and federal courts across the country, with an emphasis on the Tenth Circuit and Oklahoma appellate courts. He has handled appeals across a broad range of subject areas, from commercial litigation and employment law to constitutional disputes, tort actions, and criminal cases. 

is the Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. He was previously the First Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Northern and Eastern Districts of Oklahoma. Before joining the FPD, he focused his practice on federal civil rights litigation. He is a graduate of the University of Tulsa College of Law.

is a trial lawyer at McAfee & Taft who has a national practice. She serves as the firm’s Litigation Practice Group Chair and is a member of the Oklahoma Judicial Nominating Commission.

is the Judicial Law Clerk for United States District Judge Hill of the Northern District of Oklahoma

is an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Oklahoma. Tireless advocate for the accused.

is an assistant United States attorney who coordinates enforcement of restitution orders to obtain financial justice for victims of crime and prosecutes financial and violent crimes. Previous to government service, she was in private practice focusing on products liability and other complex civil litigation matters.

is a Professor of Legal Writing and the Director of Legal Writing at the University of Tulsa College of Law. In addition to teaching the first-year legal writing courses and the second-year appellate advocacy course, Professor Twomey consults on the use of generative AI in the law, advises the Board of Advocates, the Christian Legal Society, the student chapter of the Federalist Society, and coaches the military law moot court team.

is a term judicial law clerk in the Northern District of Oklahoma.

is a term judicial law clerk in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

is a litigation Associate at GableGotwals. His experience includes representing healthcare providers, insurers, and public entities in complex medical malpractice, insurance defense, and civil rights litigation, including § 1983 and governmental tort claims, in both state and federal courts. He graduated with honors from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 2024.

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Chief Judge, Northern District of Oklahoma

District Judge, Eastern and Western Districts of Oklahoma

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United States District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma

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Judge Russell has served as a District Judge in the Northern District of Oklahoma since January 2024. Previously, he was a trial lawyer at GableGotwals representing individuals and corporations in federal criminal matters and in complex commercial litigation; a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division; an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Oklahoma; and the Criminal Justice Act Panel Representative for the Northern District.

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United States District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma

United States District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma

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Senior Judge, Northern District of Oklahoma

Past chapter president

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Magistrate Judge, Northern District of Oklahoma

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Magistrate Judge, Northern District of Oklahoma

Past chapter president

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Judge Steele has served as a Magistrate Judge in the Northern District of Oklahoma since April 2023. Prior to his appointment, Judge Steele was a shareholder in Latham, Steele, Lehman, et. al.  During his time in private practice, he took more than 125 jury trials to verdict. 

has served as a Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Oklahoma since March 2022. Previously, Judge Robertson spent 24 years in private practice, upon graduation from law school, he became an assistant public defender for Tulsa County where he defended hundreds of persons charged with felony crimes. Thereafter, his practice focused on complex civil litigation matters in general liability, products liability, premise liability, civil rights, construction litigation, police misconduct, medical malpractice, municipal liability, professional liability, pharmacy liability, nursing home abuse, auto and trucking accidents, and bad faith. During his 24- year career, he prosecuted, defended, and tried numerous cases both in state and federal courts in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas.

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Judge Jackson has served as a Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Oklahoma since August 2022. Previously, he was a litigator at Crowe & Dunlevy focusing on business and commercial dispute resolution, and an Assistant Counsel to the Committee on Agriculture for the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Judge Snow has served as a Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Oklahoma since May 2023. Previously, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Oklahoma. He is active in the Tulsa community and teaches Evidence Workshop at the University of Tulsa College of Law.

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Clerk of Court, Northern District of Oklahoma District Court

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Clerk of Court, Northern District of Oklahoma Bankruptcy Court

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Clerk of Court, Eastern District of Oklahoma District Court

Acting Clerk of Court, Eastern District of Oklahoma Bankruptcy Court

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Hope is a Supreme Court Fellow and a former a judicial law clerk in the Northern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Oklahoma. She is a graduate of the University of Tulsa College of Law (J.D.) and the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law (LL.M.) and is an editorial board member of The Federal Lawyer magazine.

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Isaac Ellis is the General Counsel at Executive Homes. He is a past president of the Chapter. Before his role at Executive Homes, he was a Partner at Conner & Winters in Tulsa.

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Trent Shores, a former United States Attorney, is a Shareholder at GableGotwals where he advises clients regarding complex litigation, Native American law and policy, cybersecurity, and high-stakes government and corporate investigations. He represents clients in state, federal, and tribal courts at all stages in the litigation process, including at trial and on appeal. Trent also serves on the Firm’s Board of Directors as the Managing Shareholder of GableGotwals’ Tulsa office.

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Marc Roark is the Interim Dean of the University of Tulsa College of Law. His research primarily considers how narratives and norms are scaled in property conflicts around housing.

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