The Oklahoma Bar Journal October 2024

B ench & B ar B riefs

ON THE MOVE Jordan Haygood has been pro moted to regional vice president of managed care at SSM Health Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma. He leads major payor negotiations, operations and disputes for all SSM Health hospitals and pro viders in each state. Four years after starting in the SSM Health Oklahoma Legal Department in 2016, he moved to managed care. Mr. Haygood received his J.D. from the OCU School of Law in 2013. He is a past OBA Young Lawyers Division chair and an Oklahoma Journal Record 40 Under 40 recipient. Judge Lory Dewey has been sworn in as a special judge in Canadian County. She has spent her entire 22-year legal career in Oklahoma serving children and families and protecting the elderly. Judge Dewey was the lead pros ecutor for the district attorney’s office at the Miller Center, where she prosecuted juvenile deprived and delinquency matters. She previously served as an Oklahoma County assistant district attorney and an assistant attorney general. 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

Jonna Vanderslice has joined the Oklahoma City office of McAfee & Taft as an associate. She is part of the firm’s Energy and Natural Resources Practice Group and focuses her practice on the repre sentation of oil and gas exploration and production companies, oilfield service companies, midstream and transportation companies and developers of renewable and sus tainable energy projects in a broad range of business and transactional matters. She graduated with hon ors from the OCU School of Law in 2022. Ms. Vanderslice serves on the Oklahoma Hall of Fame Second Century Board, the YMCA of Greater Oklahoma City Downtown District Advisory Council, as a member advisor for the Beta Theta Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a volunteer with Youth Leadership Oklahoma.

Laura R. Talbert has been appointed interim director of the Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs. She joined the office in March as chief legal officer. Ms. Talbert served as a prosecutor and in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections Office of the General Counsel. She is the current chair of the OBA Young Lawyers Division. Matthew C. Cecconi has joined the Tulsa office of McAfee & Taft as an associate. He is part of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group and focuses his practice on the resolution of a broad range of civil litigation matters and helping clients navigate the intricacies of federal practice and procedure. Mr. Cecconi serves on the Federal Bar Association Northern/Eastern Oklahoma Chapter Board of Governors. Previously, he served for two years as a federal law clerk to Judge P.K. Holmes III of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas. He graduated at the top of his class at the TU College of Law in 2022.

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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.

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