The Oklahoma Bar Journal October 2024

KUDOS Robert Don Gifford has been selected to serve an eight-year term as a justice pro tem of the Pawnee Nation Supreme Court. He is a solo practitioner in Oklahoma City and Tulsa and the current chair of the OBA Military and Veterans Law Section, a trustee for the Oklahoma County Law Library and on the Oklahoma County Bar Association Board of Directors. Mr. Gifford also serves as a justice on the Comanche Nation Supreme Court and a trial court judge for the Kaw Nation, Iowa Tribe, Seminole Nation, Absentee-Shawnee Tribe and Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. He received his J.D. from the OU College of Law in 1996. AT THE PODIUM Marty Ludlum presented two continuing education sessions on Federal Trade Commission regula tion and employment law changes to the National Funeral Directors & Morticians Association conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

Adam Scott Weintraub has been appointed to the Oklahoma Ethics Commission by House Speaker Charles McCall until July 2029. He is a partner at the Tulsa law firm of Savage O’Donnell Affeldt & Weintraub. He also serves as an adjunct settlement judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma and an adjunct professor of law at the TU College of Law. Mr. Weintraub has over 30 years of extensive litigation experience in federal, state and tribal courts, representing local, regional, national and tribal clients. He graduated from the OU College of Law in 1989 and began his legal career as an assistant dis trict attorney for Tulsa County.

Judge Amy J. Pierce spoke on the panel for the topic of Indian law at the 2024 10th Circuit Bench & Bar Conference on Sept. 6 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is the presiding district court judge for the Choctaw Nation and the chair of the Tribal Judges Subcommittee for the Federal Bar Association.

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