Tulsa attorney Allen M. Smallwood will serve as president of the Oklahoma Bar Association for 2010. Members of the OBA Board of Governors elected to serve with him were announced at the OBA’s 105^th Annual Meeting today in Oklahoma City.

Smallwood served as OBA president-elect for 2009, a position that automatically elevates him to become president following his one-year president-elect term. He will officially be sworn into office on Jan. 15, 2010, at the Oklahoma Supreme Court courtroom in the State Capitol Building.

Smallwood is a solo criminal defense practitioner in Tulsa. He was admitted to the Oklahoma Bar Association in 1975. He is a two-time past president of the Tulsa County Bar Association and a former director of the Tulsa County Bar Foundation. His role as association president is a voluntary position in which he will serve while continuing his law practice.

The 2009 presidential term of Guymon resident Jon Parsley will come to an end on Dec. 31, and Parsley will remain on the OBA Board of Governors for one year as immediate past president.

Deborah Reheard of Eufaula will serve as president-elect during 2010, and Oklahoma City attorney Mack K. Martin will fill the office of vice president.

Also elected to the OBA Board of Governors to represent their judicial districts are Susan B. Shields, Oklahoma City; Glenn A. Devoll, Enid; and Ryland Louis Rivas, Chickasha. David A. Poarch of Norman will serve as an OBA member-at-large. They will serve three-year terms. Tulsa attorney Molly A. Aspan, who will chair the Young Lawyers Division next year, will serve a one-term on the board.

The 16,000-member Oklahoma Bar Association, headquartered in Oklahoma City, was created by the Oklahoma Supreme Court to advance the administration of justice and to foster and maintain learning, integrity, competence, public service and high standards of conduct among Oklahoma’s legal community. The 18-member Board of Governors meets monthly at locations across the state and governs the association.