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What led you to OU Law? When I was a sophomore in high school in Walters, Oklahoma--a town of about 1500--I was bored in study hall and found a book on occupations and professions. I went through the book and almost by the process of elimination, I came to the profession of lawyer. I wasn’t quite sure what lawyers did, but I knew they didn’t work in the fields the way I grew up, picking cotton and bailing hay. I knew they wore suits, and maybe I had in my mind that the practice of law had some connection to public office. At any rate, from that time, I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer.

Joyce Palomar, Professor of Law and Kenneth E. McAfee Chair in Law Emeritus, appeared on Sept. 9 as a featured speaker at the annual conference of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys.

Osborne M. Reynolds, who served on the OU College of Law Faculty from 1968 to 2002, passed away on September 4, 2020. Although retired, he continued his affiliation with the College, maintaining an office in the Emeritus Faculty wing. Professor Reynolds taught courses in land use planning, local government, regulated industries, and torts. He was a member of the Order of the Coif, Phi Betta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta and the American Bar Association.

University of Oklahoma College of Law, 1969 Harvard University, 1966 What led you to OU Law? I came to OU Law school because I grew up in Bartlesville and I thought I wanted to practice law in...

On August 18, 1920, the United States Congress ratified the 19 th amendment granting American women the right to vote. To honor this day, we collected images of some of the first women admitted to the College of Law.

OU Law Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship Megan Shaner’s article, “Restoring the Balance of Power in Corporate Management: Enforcing an Officer’s Duty of Obedience,” was recently re-published in The Best of The Business Lawyer: 75 Years of Corporate Law .

What lead you to OU Law? As was permitted at the time, my first year at OU Law in 1956 was as an undergraduate senior at OU. I never questioned where I would go to law school. I was our family’s second generation to go to OU law school. We are now a five-generation family to do so. My dad and his identical twin brother, Ralph, were OU Law graduates, class of 1927. My grandfather, Dr. William Bennett Bizzell, was OU’s 5 th president. OU was a second home to me.

Harvard Law School, LLM, 1976 University of Oklahoma College of Law, 1964 What led you to law school and what did attending OU Law mean to you? I stumbled into law school because I thought as an...

University of Oklahoma College of Law Professor Monika Ehrman was elected to the Board of Directors of Matador Resources Company. She was first appointed to the board in September 2019 and serves on the Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance, Operations and Engineering, and Prospect Committees.

Tell us about starting your career at OU Law. My undergraduate class was in 1952 and I did a combined degree. My senior year in undergraduate school at OU was my first year in law school. I had a two-year military interruption when I was a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps commissioned through the university NROTC program. I served from 1952-54 in the Marine Corp and went to Korea. I came back for my last two years of law school and finished in 1956.