The Oklahoma Bar Journal December 2022

KUDOS

John J. Foley was elected to chair the Executive Council of the State Bar of Arizona Juvenile Law Section. Mr. Foley formerly served as the initial general counsel of the Office of Juvenile Affairs. He also served as the head of the Juvenile Division of the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office. Before moving to Phoenix, he maintained a private law practice in Oklahoma City. He now works for a Phoenix civil firm, handling juvenile and civil cases.

David Halley will serve as Canadian County’s next special judge and will take the bench in early 2023. He was selected to succeed Judge Khristan Strubhar when she moves up to the district judgeship. Mr. Halley has worked in private practice in El Reno for more than 30 years, practicing in the areas of family law, divorce, estate planning, criminal law and civil litigation. He has been the city of El Reno’s associate munic ipal judge since 2010, and in 2021, he was named the Family Law Section Guardian Ad Litem of the Year. He had been the announcer for El Reno Indians football games for two decades and was an El Reno city councilman for six years.

Kent Watson was elected presi dent of the Oklahoma Association of Community Action Agencies during the Big Five Community Services’ fall conference. He will serve a two-year term, guiding the association’s 18 community action agencies during his term. Mr. Watson has served Big Five Community Services since 2009, first as Head Start director and later becoming the executive direc tor in 2013, leading the continued expansion of the agency and its programs and services.

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THE OKLAHOMA BAR JOURNAL