The Oklahoma Bar Journal October 2026

2027 LEADERSHIP AND CANDIDATES

GENERATIONS OF JUSTICE

YEARS STRONG 2026 OBA ANNUAL MEETING

2026 President Amber Peckio, Tulsa

graduate of the TU College of Law, she has served as a past member of the Alumni Association board. She is also a sustaining member of the Junior League of Tulsa. Ms. Peckio lives in Tulsa with her beloved dogs, Woody and Hendricks. Having served as president in 2026, Ms. Peckio assumes the role of immediate past president in 2027. 2027 President Jana L. Knott, El Reno Jana L. Knott joined Bass

Amber Peckio is a solo practitioner with the Amber Law Group in Tulsa. As an AV-rated preeminent attorney with more than 20 years of trial experience, Ms. Peckio primarily prac tices in litigation, insurance dispute litigation, complex

Law in 2018 and became the firm’s managing partner in 2024. Her practice focuses primarily on appellate litiga tion, advocacy, briefing and consultation. She handles civil appeals in all areas of the law in both state and federal

family litigation and personal injury litigation. She also works extensively in the newly established cannabis law field in Oklahoma and routinely counsels Oklahoma businesses in all cannabis-related legal matters. Ms. Peckio currently serves as president of the OBA Board of Governors after having served as president-elect in 2025. She is the past chair of the OBA Cannabis Law Committee and a member of the American Bar Association, where she previously served as vice chair of the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section Cannabis Policy and Law Committee and as state membership chair for Oklahoma. She also co-hosted “Between Two Weeds – Joint Sessions: 2025 Cannabis Legislation Preview” for OBA CLE. She served the OBA as an Oklahoma Bar Foundation Trustee from 2014 to 2019, Women in Law Committee chair in 2007, Lawyer Advertising Task Force member in 2007, Young Lawyers Division board director for Tulsa from 2006 to 2014, Professionalism Committee member, Law Related Education Committee chair, Solo and Small Firm Conference Planning Committee member, Audit Committee member in 2022, graduate of the inaugural OBA Leadership Academy in 2009 and a frequent CLE speaker. Ms. Peckio was also active in the Tulsa County Bar Association, having served as vice president in 2020, secretary in 2019 and small firm director in 2021. She received her J.D. from the TU College of Law in 2003 and is admitted to practice in all courts in the state of Oklahoma and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Northern and Western districts of Oklahoma and the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. As a

court, including oil and gas, trusts and estates, divorce, parental termination, appeals from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, real property, municipal law and bankruptcy. She also represents clients who wish to participate in an appeal as an amicus curiae . Ms. Knott represents clients in district courts across the state in civil litigation cases as both trial counsel and embedded appellate counsel. She often provides dis trict court-level brief writing and complex motion writing to other lawyers and firms in all areas of the law, includ ing trust and estate disputes, business disputes, oil and gas litigation, municipal law and real property disputes. 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.

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