THE OKLAHOMA BAR JOURNAL 72 | JANUARY 2025 ON THE MOVE Virginia Henson and Margaret A. East have joined the law firm of Mullins Mullins Sexton & Reaves PC. Ms. Henson serves as of counsel. She received her J.D. from the OU College of Law in 1979 and practices family law, handles appeals and conducts mediations, as well as serves as an adjunct family law professor for the OU College of Law and a visiting professor at the OU Legal Clinic. She has received several awards and accolades during her career, including being named the Outstanding Family Lawyer for Oklahoma in 1996 and 2014 and receiving the OBA Maurice Merrill Golden Quill Award in 2020. Ms. Henson has published many articles in the Oklahoma Bar Journal, co-authored the Oklahoma Juvenile Law Bench Book in 1996 and 1997 and authored evidence, adoption, ethics, property division and children’s code chapters for the Oklahoma Family Law Practice Manual from 2002 to the present. Ms. East serves as an associate attorney and practices family law. In 2024, she received her J.D. from the OU College of Law, where she served as the assistant articles editor for the Oklahoma Law Review and worked as a legal research and writing teaching assistant. Ms. East also participated in the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Child Abuse and Neglect. Jordan Ensley has joined the new Tulsa office of Gilson Daub as a partner. She has more than 13 years of workers’ compensation defense experience. Ms. Ensley was previously a partner at Gish McGivern PA. Her practice focuses on large retailers and complex permanent total disability claims. She has extensive courtroom experience, having litigated hundreds of cases in the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court of Existing Claims and the Commission. She received her J.D. from the OCU School of Law, where she received the CALI Excellence Award for Professional Responsibility. Ms. Ensley is a member of the OBA Workers’ Compensation Section, the Tulsa County Bar Association and the Women’s Law Association. Jeffrey A. Levy has joined the Tulsa law firm of Atkinson, Brittingham, Gladd, Fiasco & Edmonds as an associate. He received his J.D. from the OU College of Law in 2023, where he was a member of the Oklahoma City University Law Review. Mr. Levy practices civil litigation with an emphasis on research and writing. Kathryn Black, Maureen Johnson and Adam Burnett have been named partners at the Tulsa law firm of Frasier, Frasier & Hickman LLP. Ms. Black, who has led the firm’s workers’ compensation practice for several years, will help manage the firm. Ms. Johnson handles a variety of legal matters in the firm, including probate, estates, social security and various civil matters. Mr. Burnett joined the firm in 2019 after graduating from the OU College of Law. Bench & Bar Briefs 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 March issue must be received by Feb. 1.
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