The Oklahoma Bar Journal January 2024

B ench & B ar B riefs

ON THE MOVE

John Settle was selected as gen eral counsel for the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs. Starting in 2018, he served as a chief assistant attorney general at the Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General. Early in his career, he served as an Oklahoma assistant district attorney in two Oklahoma prosecution districts. He also served on the OBA YLD Board of Directors for several years before he and his wife, Paula, moved their family to Pawnee County, Kansas, to man age one of his family member’s community newspapers. In July 1995, Mr. Settle was appointed by Kansas Gov. Graves as the county attorney of Pawnee County, where he served the community as its chief law enforcement officer and county counselor for 24 years. In January 2017, he moved to Hutchinson, Kansas, where he served as the senior assistant district attorney of Reno County, Kansas, until he accepted the position with the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office.

Taylor A. Burke and Nicole Mathews have joined the Tulsa law firm of Baum Glass Jayne Carwile & Peters. Mr. Burke practices in the areas of complex estate, trust and business litigation, probate, guardianships, estate planning, family law and political-related matters. He has a statewide prac tice and has been involved in many notable cases in state and federal court during his 17-year career. He received his J.D. from the TU College of Law in 2006 and is active in the Hudson-Hall Wheaton American Inn of Court and numerous other community-, education- and church-related vol unteer positions. Ms. Mathews was admitted to the bar in September and has since been admitted to each Oklahoma federal district court and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a member of the Council Oak/Johnson-Sontag American Inn of Court. Ms. Mathews earned her J.D. with highest honors in 2023. She practices in the areas of contract litigation, business transactions, probate, medical malpractice and other complex litigation with an emphasis on research and writing. HOW TO PLACE AN ANNOUNCEMENT: The Oklahoma Bar Journal welcomes short articles or news items about OBA members and upcoming meetings. If you are an OBA member and you’ve moved, become a partner, hired an associate, taken on a partner, received a promotion or an award or given a talk or speech with statewide or national stature, we’d like to hear from

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you. Sections, committees and county bar associations are encouraged to submit short stories about upcoming or recent activities. Honors bestowed by other publications ( e.g., Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers , etc.) will not be accepted as announcements. (Oklahoma-based publications are the exception.) Information selected for publication is printed at no cost, subject to editing and printed as space permits.

Hailey Boyd Communications Dept. Oklahoma Bar Association 405-416-7018 barbriefs@okbar.org

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