The Oklahoma Bar Journal September 2022

MEET THE NEW OBA DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION The OBA welcomes Chris Brumit to the role of director of administration. Prior to joining the OBA, Mr. Brumit was an audit supervisor at a local CPA firm in Oklahoma City. His career as a CPA includes auditing a vast array of indus tries as well as experience in taxation. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting

from the University of Central Oklahoma and an MBA with an emphasis in accounting from Oklahoma Christian University. Mr. Brumit is a member of the National Association of Bar Executives, the American Institute of CPAs and the Oklahoma Society of CPAs. He is a father of two, and in his spare time, he enjoys golfing, football and being involved with his children’s extracurricular activities.

OBA PRESIDENT MEETS WITH VISITING MONGOLIAN JUDGES Five judges from Mongolia visited Tulsa in late July,

stopping at the Tulsa County District Courthouse and the Tulsa County Bar Association along the way. Tulsa Global Alliance, a nonprofit orga nization that works to foster ongoing relationships between Tulsa residents and interna tional visitors, coordinated the tour, which the judges saw as a great educational experience. The visit included a tour of the courthouse and a meeting

OBA President Jim Hicks and members of the Tulsa County Bar Association meet with the Mongolian judges.

with members of the Tulsa County Bar Association and OBA President Jim Hicks to discuss the differences between the U.S. and Mongolian court systems. Mongolia, which descended from the Mongol Empire that was founded by Genghis Kahn in 1206, was a Communist state from the 1920s until the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. The country adopted a dem ocratic constitution, which included an independent judiciary, in 1992. The president appoints all the country’s judges to lifetime terms.

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