Faculty Pro Bono and Community Activities

Dean & Professor Janet Levit

Board of Directors, Tulsa Zoo Friends 2004-present
Board of Directors, Community Relations Committee, Tulsa Jewish Federation 2002-present
American Branch of the International Law Association: International Law Weekend, Organizing Committee Member

Vice Dean & Professor Gary Allison

Tulsa Lawyers for Children Board of Directors 2004-present
Chair, Just Progress 2004-2007, a progressive political action organization

Associate Dean & Professor Vicki Limas

Juliette Low Leadership Society (Girl Scouts)
Board Member and legal consultant, Tulsa SPCA, 2004-present
Council Oak/Johnson-Sontag Inn
Associate Dean & Professor Lyn Entzeroth
American Bar Association's Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project, member of team assessing death penalty in Oklahoma. 2005-present

Professor Chuck Adams

OBA Committee Memberships: Civil Procedure Committee and Uniform Laws Committee - Vice Chair

Professor M. Thomas Arnold

Master of the Bar, Council Oaks Johnson-Sontag Chapter, American Inns of Court

Professor Carrie Griffin Basas

Advisory Board Member, Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation
Commissioner, ABA's Commission on Physical and Mental Disability Law
Founded an online network of lawyers and law students with disabilities

Professor Christian Blair

Board Member - Neighbors Along the Line
Constitution Day presentation, Kendal-Whittier Elementary School

Professor Marianne Blair

Board Member, Legal Aid of Oklahoma, Inc., 2008-2010
Prepare CLE materials and give a CLE presentation annually for Legal Aid of Oklahoma
PTA Volunteer for Various Committees and Activities at Children's Schools
University Faculty Appeals Board - Chair 2005-2008
Law School Curriculum Committee - 2006-08

Professor Barbara Bucholtz

American Cancer Society, Hi Plains Division, Board of Directors, 2003-present

Professor Robert Butkin

Director, Oklahoma Policy, Inc. 2007-present
Director, Oklahoma Conference for Community And Justice 2006-present
Trustee, Oklahoma Science and Mathematics Foundation 2004-present
Director, Jasmine Moran Children's Museum 2003-present

Professor Marguerite A. Chapman

American Health Lawyers Association, Academia Advisory Board, Member 2006-08
Oklahoma Center for Consumer and Patient Safety, Member Board of Advisers 2005-present
University Faculty Grievance Committee 1995-2008

Professor Patience A. Crowder

Participant, North Tulsa Economic Development Initiative Leadership Program
Leadership Program Co-Chair, Leadership Development Committee Metropolitan Tulsa Urban League Young Professionals, 2007-present
Board of Directors, Community Action Project of Tulsa County, 2007-present
Section on Civil Rights, Association of American Law Schools, Executive Committee Member 2007; Secretary January 2008-present

Professor Tom Holland

Board of Directors of Neighbor for Neighbor
Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics, Member since 1999; Chair, since 2001

Professor Marla E. Mansfield

Citizen Advisory Council, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation Division
Vice-Chair, Special Committee on Electric Industry Restructuring, Section on Environmental, Energy and Resources Law, ABA, 2005-present

Professor William Rice

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation 1986-present
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the Sac and Fox of Kansas 1998-present

Professor Irma Russell

Chair, AALS Professional Responsibility Section, 2008-09
Chair, ABA Professionalism Committee of Section of Legal Education, 2008-2009
Member, Executive Committee, AALS Natural Resources Section for 2008-09
Chair, ABA Committee on Innovation of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, 2008-09
Member, Board of Directors of Energy Advocates, 2008-09

Professor Robert Spoo

Committee Member, Modernist Studies Association Task Force on Fair Use 2007-present
General Legal Counsel for the International James Joyce Foundation 2004-present

Professor Melissa Tatum

TSHA (a United Way agency serving the Deaf/deaf and hard of hearing): Member, Executive Committee 2003-present; Member, Board of Directors 2002-present
City of Tulsa Pipes and Drums, bagpipes & bass drum, Member 2005-present

Professor Sandy Taylor

Advise and implement foundation to provide after-school care for needy African-American children
Advise and implement foundation to support the work of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas

Professor Kathleen Waits

Arbitrator for NASD Dispute Resolution, Inc. Hearing a variety of cases arising from disputes between NASD member brokers and customers
Oklahoma Coalition against Domestic Violence, Workshop speaker
Founding member and active participant, FIVERS feminist domestic violence listserve

Professor Ray Yasser

Regularly consults pro bono in regard to gender equity issues
Food bank volunteer

Professor Catherine Cullem

Girl's Inc of Tulsa, Vice President
American Inns of Court, Hudson-Hall-Wheaton Inn, Master of the Bar

Professor Daniel Boudreau

Hudson-Hall-Wheaton Chapter of American Inns of Court
Dispute Resolution Consultants, Mediation & Arbitration Services - Member