EDUCATION

• Oklahoma Christian University (Bachelor of Arts in English, 2003, summa cum laude)
  • Honors fellow, outstanding graduate in English studies
• University of Oklahoma (Master of Arts in English, 2008)
• Oklahoma City University School of Law (Juris Doctor, 2016, summa cum laude)
  • Outstanding Academic Performance Award, Outstanding Graduate Award, Hatton W. Sumners Scholar, Staff Editor of Oklahoma City University Law Review, Order of Barristers, Berry-Opala Outstanding Graduate Award (Phi Delta Phi, Hand Inn), Judge Dwain Box Memorial Award for Outstanding Appellate Advocate, T. Hurley Jordan Award for Excellence in Criminal Procedure, 15 CALI Awards, for highest grade in a law school course

ADMISSIONS

• State Bar of Oklahoma
• United States District Court for the Western and Northern Districts of Oklahoma
• United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

EXPERIENCE

• Diverse state and federal litigation practice, including appellate work and criminal defense. Representative experience includes shareholder litigation, oil and gas disputes, contract disputes, tax protests, employment matters, and probate and trust litigation.
• Skilled writer with significant experience briefing complicated issues and successfully obtaining dismissals, summary judgment, and favorable results on appeal
• Successfully tried lawsuits to verdict
• Criminal Justice Act Training Panel
• Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Jodi W. Dishman, United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma (2020-2022)
• Extern for the Honorable Robin J. Cauthron, United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma (spring 2015)
• Editor at the International Ocean Discovery Program, Texas A&M University (2009-2012)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS

• Federal Bar Association, Oklahoma City Chapter Pro Bono Representative
• American Bar Association
• Oklahoma Bar Association
• Oklahoma County Bar Association
• William J. Holloway Jr. American Inn of Court
• Oklahoma County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, Board of Directors (2018-2019)

HONORS, AWARDS & RANKINGS

• Oklahoma Super Lawyers “Rising Star” – Business Litigation (2023)
• Best Lawyers in America – Oil and Gas (2019)
• Federal Bar Association, Oklahoma City Chapter – Outstanding Pro Bono Service (2017)

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Pro bono representation of prisoners in meritorious civil rights claims through the Oklahoma City Chapter of the Federal Bar Association
• Oklahoma Innocence Clinic (spring 2016)
• Jodi G. Marquette American Indian Wills Clinic, Oklahoma City University (fall 2015)