The Oklahoma Bar Journal January 2026

M eet Y our B ar A ssociation Meet the Volunteers Who Guide Your Association

New officers and board members took office on Jan. 1. A formal swearing-in ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 16, in the Supreme Court Courtroom at the state Capitol.

the Tulsa County Bar Association, having served as secretary in 2019, vice president in 2020 and small firm director in 2021. She received her J.D. from the TU College of Law in 2003 and is admitted to practice in all courts in the state of Oklahoma and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Northern and Western districts of Oklahoma and the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. As a grad uate of the TU College of Law, she has served as a past member of the Alumni Association board. She is also a sustaining member of the Junior League of Tulsa.

AMBER PECKIO 2026 President Tulsa

Amber Peckio is a solo practitioner with the Amber Law Group of Tulsa. As an AV-rated preeminent attorney with more than 23 years of trial experience, Ms. Peckio primarily practices in litigation, insurance dispute

litigation, complex family litigation and personal injury litigation. She also works extensively in the newly estab lished cannabis law field in Oklahoma and routinely counsels Oklahoma businesses in all cannabis-related legal matters. Ms. Peckio served as OBA president-elect in 2025 after serving as vice president in 2024. She is the past chair of the OBA Cannabis Law Committee (now an OBA section). She is a member of the American Bar Association, where she previously served as vice chair of the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section Cannabis Policy and Law Committee and as state membership chair for Oklahoma. She also co-hosted “Between Two Weeds – Joint Sessions: 2025 Cannabis Legislation Preview” for OBA CLE. She has served the OBA as an Oklahoma Bar Foundation Trustee from 2014 to 2019, Women in Law Committee chair in 2007, Lawyer Advertising Task Force member in 2007, Young Lawyers Division board director for Tulsa from 2006 to 2014, Professionalism Committee member, Law Related Education Committee chair, Solo and Small Firm Conference Planning Committee member, Audit Committee member in 2022, graduate of the inaugural OBA Leadership Academy in 2009 and a frequent CLE speaker. Ms. Peckio was also active in

JANA L. KNOTT President-Elect El Reno

Jana L. Knott joined Bass Law in 2018 and became the firm’s managing partner in 2024. Her practice focuses primarily on appellate litigation, advocacy, brief ing and consultation. She handles civil appeals in all

areas of the law in both state and federal court, includ ing oil and gas, trusts and estates, divorce, parental termination, appeals from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, real property, municipal law and bank ruptcy. She also represents clients who wish to partici pate in an appeal as an amicus curiae . Ms. Knott represents clients in district courts across the state in civil litigation cases as both trial counsel and embedded appellate counsel. She often provides district court-level brief writing and complex motion writing to other lawyers and firms in all areas of the law, including trust and estate disputes, business disputes, oil and gas litigation, municipal law and real property disputes.

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