Education
and Bar Memberships
Bachelor
of Arts, Oklahoma State University, 1976
Research Assistant, Oklahoma Court of Criminal
Appeals, 1978-79
Juris Doctorate, University of Oklahoma, 1979
Oklahoma Bar Association, 1979
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit,
1979
United States District Court Western District of
Oklahoma, 1981
United States Supreme Court, 1985
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Current
and Prior Associations
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Associated
in office sharing arrangements with Frank Courbois
1979-2000, at various times including David Hood,
Chad Ransdell, Charlie Cox (Courbois, Cox and Staggs),
Kent Eldridge, and Merle Gile (Courbois, Staggs and
Gile). Continuing association with Merle
Gile case by case. Member CJA Panel and Capital
Habeas Corpus Panel, U. S. District Court for the
Western District of Oklahoma, since 1997, and original member, Tenth
Circuit Panel, 2007.
Other
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During
Perestroika, participated with Claude Hall in Volga
River cruises for Soviet managers, If You Want to
Make an Omelet, You Have to Break Some Eggs;
contracted for manufacture of hand tool at Soyuz
aircraft factory; and, obtained U.S. Department of
Transportation license for commercial cargo flights
of Soviet aircraft from Kazan, Tartarstan, to
Anchorage, Alaska. Post-Soviet, conducted
discovery and depositions in Moscow essential to a
successful Paine County jury trial for the recovery
of commissions on substantial oil and gas submersible
pump contracts in Siberia. In 1991, overcame
previously unsurmounted regulatory hurdles to enable
the first gun show within the City of Las Vegas,
Nevada, Claude Hall's Las Vegas Gun Show.
Personal
Westminster
Presbyterian Church Mobile Meals
Oklahoma City Boat Club;
OSU:Delta Upsilon Fraternity/Private Pilot SEL;
God and Country Award/Eagle Scout,
Descendant of the Run of 89, Hennessey, Oklahoma.
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