The Oklahoma Bar Journal April 2026

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Bar Members Celebrate Membership Anniversaries

T HE OKLAHOMA BAR Association congratulates these members who reached significant milestone anniversaries in 2026.

MCCLAIN COUNTY Charles B. Grethen, Purcell

In 1956, Elvis Presley recorded “Heartbreak Hotel,” the United States adopted “In God We Trust” as its national motto, the New York Yankees’ Don Larsen pitched the only World Series perfect game, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act, paving the way for the American interstate system.

MUSKOGEE COUNTY Edwin L. Gage, Muskogee Wm John Earle Settle, Muskogee OKLAHOMA COUNTY J. Steve Anderson III, Oklahoma City John Morton Coffey, Oklahoma City James T. Farha, Oklahoma City Jeff L. Hartmann, Oklahoma City Lester Anthony Klaus, Oklahoma City Joseph Willard Maxey Jr., Edmond Stanley Ell Niece, Oklahoma City L. David Pomeroy, Oklahoma City

MUSKOGEE COUNTY Robert Bowman Manke, Muskogee

Mark Harold Price, Bethany Robert Allen Ridle, Bethany Jimmie J. Schnorr, Bethany

PITTSBURG COUNTY John A. Allford, McAlester

Daniel W. Seitsinger, Oklahoma City William H. Sullivan, Oklahoma City Donald J. Timberlake, Oklahoma City

POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY Robert Howard Jones, Shawnee

William O. West, Edmond E. Vance Winningham Jr., Oklahoma City Edward R. Zschiesche, Oklahoma City PAYNE COUNTY J. Stewart Arthurs, Cushing Joe Wiley Fowler, Stillwater

BECKHAM COUNTY Gary Phillip McGinn, Elk City

TULSA COUNTY Thomas Wilson Brown, Tulsa

CADDO COUNTY John William Garland, Anadarko

OUT OF STATE Charles M. Blackard, Arden, NC Gerald Kenneth Hornung II, Shelburne, VT

COMANCHE COUNTY Jerry Clay Cude, Lawton

PITTSBURG COUNTY Gary L. McKnight, McAlester

GARFIELD COUNTY Ronald Gene Franklin, Enid Stephen Jones, Enid

POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY Terry W. West, Shawnee

KAY COUNTY L. Jack Barton, Ponca City

SEQUOYAH Steve Daniel George, Sallisaw

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