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He is active in the community, including serving as a member of the Deer Creek Schools Foundation board, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Marine Corps League. He enjoys spend ing time with his wife, Lindsay, and his daughters, Makenna and Teagan. He also enjoys traveling, exercising, reading, playing video games, watching movies and anything involving sports, especially the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Oklahoma City Thunder, Tottenham Hotspur and the Detroit Lions.

Prior to joining the firm, she worked for seven years as a staff attorney to Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Noma D. Gurich. In addition, she has worked as an adjunct professor at the OCU School of Law, teaching civil practice and procedure. Ms. Knott co-hosts and produces Oklahoma Appeals: The Podcast , where she and her co-host discuss new cases published by the Oklahoma Supreme Court and the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals and interview guests on all topics related to civil litigation at both the district court and appellate court levels.

D. KENYON WILLIAMS JR. Immediate Past President Sperry D. Kenyon Williams Jr. is a shareholder at the Tulsa office of Hall Estill, having joined the firm in 1996. Prior to joining, Mr. Williams served as in-house counsel for Helmerich & Payne after forming his own firm in 1977.

S. SHEA BRACKEN Vice President Edmond

S. Shea Bracken is an attorney with the Edmond law firm of Maples, Nix & Diesselhorst. His practice focuses on catastrophic injury, including medical malprac tice, birth injury and products liability. He served in the U.S.

He received his bachelor’s degree in petroleum engi neering from TU and his J.D. from the TU College of Law. He is licensed in Oklahoma and Arkansas and rep resents businesses and communities in environmental, regulatory, administrative and litigation matters. Mr. Williams has been active in the OBA and the Tulsa County Bar Association throughout his career. He has served in almost every TCBA position, includ ing president in 2014 and Tulsa County Bar Foundation Trustee. While serving as president, the TCBA was awarded the OBA Outstanding County Bar Association Award. The association also received the OBA Hicks Epton Law Day Award for its outstanding Law Day while he was serving as the TCBA Law Day chair. In the OBA, Mr. Williams served as president in 2025 after serving as president-elect in 2024 and vice president in 2023. He also served as governor for

Marine Corps Infantry and is a decorated war veteran with a combat deployment to Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom II. He earned his bachelor’s degree from OSU and his J.D. with honors from the OCU School of Law. Mr. Bracken is a member of the American Association for Justice, including the Birth Trauma Litigation Group and the Attorneys Information Exchange Group; the Oklahoma County Bar Association; and the Oklahoma Association for Justice. He served as a district representa tive on the OBA Board of Governors from 2022 to 2024. He currently serves as an Oklahoma Bar Foundation Trustee and as chair of the OBA Military Assistance Committee. He also participates in the OCU Law Mentorship Program and is a member of the OBA Mock Trial, Legislative Monitoring and Bench and Bar committees.

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