The Oklahoma Bar Journal October 2026

2026 RESOLUTIONS

GENERATIONS OF JUSTICE

YEARS STRONG 2026 OBA ANNUAL MEETING

The following resolution will be submitted to the House of Delegates at the 122nd Oklahoma Bar Association Annual Meeting at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 13, at the Skirvin Hotel in Oklahoma City. RESOLUTION NO. ONE: Amendment to Bylaws Adding Additional Judges as Oklahoma Judicial Conference Representatives to the OBA House of Delegates BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Delegates of the Oklahoma Bar Association that the Association amend Article 1, Section 2 of the Bylaws of the Oklahoma Bar Association, as published in the Oklahoma Bar Journal and posted on the OBA website at www.okbar.org to add judges so that the number of judicial representatives of the Oklahoma Judicial Conference to the House of Delegates is increased to nine (9) representatives with nine (9) alternates, with no specified category of judge required to serve. (The changes to the bylaws require two-thirds affirmative vote for passage. OBA Bylaws Art. XI Sec. 1) Submitted by Justice Noma Gurich and President Thomas Prince of the Oklahoma Judicial Conference ARTICLE I Section 2. MEMBERSHIP The House of Delegates shall be composed of one delegate or alternate from each County of the State, who shall be an active or senior member of the Bar of such County, as certified by the Executive Director at the opening of the annual meeting; providing that each County where the active or senior resident members of the Bar exceed fifty shall be entitled to one additional delegate or alternate for each additional fifty active or senior members or major fraction thereof. In the absence of the elected delegate(s) the alternate(s) shall be certified to vote in the stead of the delegate. In no event shall any County elect more than thirty (30) members to the House of Delegates. Each delegate and alternate shall be elected for a term of two years to begin with the commencement of the annual meeting following his or her election, and terminating with the commencement of the third annual meeting following his or her election or until the election and certification of his or her successor, provided, that beginning with the election of delegates and alternates following adoption of this amendment, the Board of Governors shall designate the number of delegate positions in each County which shall be for an initial one-year term and which delegate positions shall be a two-year term, providing further, that as nearly as it is mathematically possible, the one and two-year terms shall be divided equally for Counties entitled to two or more delegates, the respective County Bar Association shall determine the method of designating the delegates for one-year terms and the delegates for two-year terms. Each member of the Board of Governors of the Association shall be an ex officio non-voting member of the House of Delegates and shall be vested with the courtesy of the floor of the House of Delegates and the right to speak therein, but shall have no right to introduce resolutions or legislative proposals or motions or to vote thereon, unless certified as a delegate from his or her county of residence. Each former President of the Oklahoma Bar Association shall be a Member at Large of the House of Delegates of said Association with the same powers, duties and voting rights as an elected delegate of the House of Delegates. Also, the Oklahoma Judicial Conference shall select from its membership one district judge as delegate and one district judge as alternate, and associate district judge as delegate and one associate district judge as alternate, and one special judge as del egate and one special judge as alternate, shall be represented by nine (9) judicial delegates and nine (9) alternate delegates, one delegate and one alternate selected from each of the nine Judicial Administrative Districts (as constituted on July 1, 2026). Each delegate and each alternate who shall have, respectively, all the rights, duties and powers of delegates and alternate delegates. RESOLUTION SUBMISSION DEADLINE Pursuant to OBA Bylaws, proposed resolutions for House of Delegates consideration must meet publication guidelines before the Annual Meeting. Proposed resolutions in bill format must be submitted to Executive Director Janet Johnson by Sept. 1, 2026, to be published in the October 2026 Oklahoma Bar Journal . The deadline for publication in the official General Assembly and House of Delegates publication has passed.

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