The Oklahoma Bar Journal April 2023

KUDOS

Susan Shields has been elected to the Board of Regents at the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Ms. Shields is an ACTEC Fellow and served as the Oklahoma state chair from 2016 to 2021. She is a shareholder and tax and family wealth attor ney at the Oklahoma City office of McAfee & Taft. Active in her community and professional legal organizations, she has served on the boards for the Oklahoma County Bar Association, Oklahoma Bar Foundation, Oklahoma City Estate Planning Council, Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits, SpiritBank and Oklahoma Cleats for Kids. Previously, Ms. Shields served as the 2020 OBA president and an adjunct professor of law in estate planning and wealth transfer tax at the OU College of Law.

Robert Don Gifford has been appointed as a tribal court judge by the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. He will oversee the civil docket. Mr. Gifford also serves as a tribal court judge for the Seminole Nation, Kaw Nation, Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, Comanche Nation and Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas. He previously served as a municipal judge for Oklahoma City for four years and currently maintains a criminal law and civil rights law practice in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.

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THE OKLAHOMA BAR JOURNAL