APRIL 2024 | 103 THE OKLAHOMA BAR JOURNAL KUDOS Chief Justice M. John Kane IV and the Oklahoma Supreme Court have received a special commendation from Freedom of Information Oklahoma for making video recordings of past oral arguments available for the public on the Oklahoma Supreme Court Network website. Paul George has been appointed to the United States delegation to the Working Group on Jurisdiction at the Hague Conference on Private International Law to work on a proposal for a convention on parallel litigation. He is a graduate of OSU, the TU College of Law and Columbia Law School. Mr. George teaches conflict of laws and litigation courses at the Texas A&M University School of Law. Josh D. Lee has been selected to receive the Marian Opala First Amendment Award by Freedom of Information Oklahoma. The award was named for the late Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Marian Opala and recognizes individuals for promoting education about or protection of individual rights guaranteed by the First Amendment. Mr. Lee was selected for the award for his longstanding advocacy in and out of the courtroom and his work on his website, FOIBible. Attorney General Gentner Drummond has been selected to receive the Sunshine Award by Freedom of Information Oklahoma. The award recognizes his work to ensure that state and local officials comply with the Open Meeting and Open Records acts. After taking office in 2023, Attorney General Drummond worked to clear a backlog of open record requests at the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office. AT THE PODIUM Paul R. Foster of Paul Foster Law Offices PC presented to Oklahoma bankers and other attendees from several states at the Community Bankers Association of Oklahoma’s Winter Leadership Conference in Destin, Florida. He presented on “Dynamic Interactive Questions and Answers,” a panel of banking regulators from the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Oklahoma State Banking Department.
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