FEBRUARY 2025 | 69 THE OKLAHOMA BAR JOURNAL HOW TO PLACE AN ANNOUNCEMENT: The Oklahoma Bar Journal welcomes short articles or news items about OBA members and upcoming meetings. If you are an OBA member and you’ve moved, become a partner, hired an associate, taken on a partner, received a promotion or an award or given a talk or speech with statewide or national stature, we’d like to hear from you. Sections, committees and county bar associations are encouraged to submit short stories about upcoming or recent activities. Honors bestowed by other publications (e.g., Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers, etc.) will not be accepted as announcements. (Oklahoma-based publications are the exception.) Information selected for publication is printed at no cost, subject to editing and printed as space permits. Submit news items to: Hailey Boyd Communications Dept. Oklahoma Bar Association 405-416-7033 barbriefs@okbar.org Articles for the April issue must be received by March 1. KUDOS Timothy Michaels-Johnson has been appointed by Gov. Stitt to serve as a commissioner representing the OBA at the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth. He received his J.D. with honors from the TU College of Law in 2011. He has prosecuted child welfare cases and led Tulsa Lawyers for Children as executive director. He also serves as the Region 5 managing attorney for child representation at the Oklahoma Office of Family Representation while teaching juvenile law. Dwight L. Smith has been inducted into the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (NADN). The NADN is a professional association whose membership consists of alternative dispute resolution professionals distinguished by their hands-on experience in the field of civil and commercial conflict resolution. Membership is by invitation only through a rigorous selection process. Mr. Smith was selected for his experience mediating disputes and arbitrating cases for more than 15 years. He was appointed of counsel at the Tulsa law firm of Robinett, Swartz & Duren in July 2022. Since January 2023, he has limited his practice to the exclusive provision of alternative dispute resolution services. Jacqueline Hale has been named partner at the Austin, Texas, office of McCall, Parkhurst & Horton LLP. She serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriters’ counsel in tax-exempt debt transactions for various special districts throughout Texas. She also serves as bond counsel and disclosure counsel to cities, counties, school districts, navigation districts and other governmental entities in central Texas. Ms. Hale is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the American Bar Association and the Texas Chapter of Women in Public Finance. She received her J.D. from the OU College of Law.
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