The Oklahoma Bar Journal November 2024

Nation Labor Day Festival. Governor Bracken reported he attended the Oklahoma County Bar Association Raising the Bar event and a Mock Trial Committee meeting regarding new case details and a workshop for Oklahoma High School Mock Trial program students. Governor Conner reported he attended the Garfield County Bar Association meeting. Governor Dow reported she attended the Cleveland County Bar Association’s happy hour event, the Oklahoma County Bar Association Family Law Section meeting, the OBA Family Law Section meet ing, the Mary Abbott Children’s House Board of Directors meeting and the OBA Disaster Response and Relief Committee meeting. Governor Hixon reported he par ticipated in the strategic planning sessions in Ardmore, attended the joint Annual Meeting of the Tulsa County Bar Association and Tulsa County Bar Foundation and mod erated the TCBA awards portion of the meeting. He participated in the OBA Law Day Committee meeting and the OBA Budget Committee meeting and attended the TCBA Board of Directors meet ing. Governor Knott reported she attended the Budget Committee meeting, the retirement reception hosted by the Canadian County Bar Association for Judge Hatfield and the swearing-in ceremony for Canadian County Judge Lori Dewey. She attended the strategic planning sessions in Ardmore and the Oklahoma Municipal League

Committee meeting, a Membership Engagement Committee meeting and the Board of Editors retreat. She attended the Boiling Springs Legal Institute on Sept. 17, the CLE Movie Night at the Supreme Court on Thursday, Sept. 19, and the Women in Law Conference on Friday, Sept. 20. REPORT OF THE IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Past President Hermanson reported he participated in the strategic planning sessions in Ardmore, chaired the Oklahoma Justice Assistance Grant board meeting and reviewed and approved items regarding pend ing OBA litigation. He virtu ally attended the Membership Engagement Committee meeting and attended the Oklahoma District Attorneys Association Legislative Awards dinner and meetings for the District Attorneys Council Technology Committee and Board of Directors and the Oklahoma District Attorneys Association Board of Directors. reported she attended the Budget Committee meeting, the Carter County Bar Association joint recep tion, the strategic planning retreat in Ardmore and the September Bench and Bar Committee meet ing. Governor Barbush reported he attended the strategic plan ning retreat in Ardmore and the opening ceremony of the Choctaw BOARD MEMBER REPORTS Governor Ailles Bahm

to discuss legislative issues. She attended the Tulsa County Bar Association and Tulsa County Bar Foundation joint Annual Meeting, attended two YLD monthly meet ings and discussed 2025 meeting opportunities at Boiling Springs with President-Elect Williams, Judge Parsley and Judge Eilers. She worked on updates to the Lawyers Helping Lawyers Assistance Program contract and necessary website updates, filed applica tions for an MCLE rule change and dues increase and attended lunch with President Pringle and past OBA Governor Kara Smith to discuss the Diversity Committee. She attended a Bar Center Facilities Committee meeting and corre sponded with architects on next steps and follow-up questions, met with Intellectual Property Section leaders about the Oklahoma Bar Journal publication agreement and met with a representative from Tulsa Club Hotel to discuss upcom ing meetings. She met with repre sentatives from the Skirvin Hilton Hotel to discuss November 2025 meeting needs, attended the Bench and Bar committee meeting and met with an HVAC group regard ing upcoming necessary system upgrades. She met with counsel to discuss pending litigation, attended a webinar about national concerns surrounding legal des erts, met with cybersecurity group Arctic Wolf for OBA tech improve ments and attended a meeting with President-Elect Williams about the OBA budget. She attended a Budget

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