The Oklahoma Bar Journal March 2023

KUDOS

Glen D. Johnson Jr. has been inducted into the Order of the Owl by the OU College of Law. He is a director in Crowe & Dunlevy’s Oklahoma City office. Mr. Johnson received his J.D. from the OU College of Law and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from OCU. He served as chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, leading the state system of 25 state colleges and 10 constituent agencies from 2007 to 2021, when he was named chan cellor emeritus. Mr. Johnson has been inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Association of Community Colleges Hall of Fame. He has been named a Life Fellow of the ABA and has received the Leadership Oklahoma Lifetime Achievement Award.

Judge Mark Barcus received a Director’s Award at the January ceremony for the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) for his work on the Pro Bono Committee. The committee com pleted a nationwide assessment of access to justice resources in immigration courts and drafted comprehensive recommendations for improving operations for pro se respondents and pro bono legal services. This was his second Director’s Award, the first being the year prior for his work on the agency’s COVID Reporting and Response Team. Judge Barcus serves as assistant chief immigra tion judge, overseeing the Dallas Immigration Court and Fort Worth Immigration Adjudication Center.

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