Tom C. Riesen, Chairperson
5101 N. Classen, Suite 404
Oklahoma City, OK 73118
(405) 843-8444
tcriesen@sbcglobal.net

Julie Simmons Rivers, Vice Chairperson
6440 N. Avondale, Suite 208
Oklahoma City, OK 73116
(405) 843-3055
jsrivers@coxinet.net

Committee Members: 2008 -- M. Michael Arnett, OKC; Douglas E. Brown, OKC; Linda Burkett-OHern, OKC; Stephen LeRoy Cale, Shawnee; John Arnold Call, Edmond; J. William Conger, OKC; Robert S. Dobbs, OKC; Mark Eugene Duvall, OKC; Brock Regan Ellis, OKC; O. Clifton Gooding, OKC; Martha Moody Hardwick, Tulsa; Kay Allen Hurley, Edmond; Steven R. Mackey, Tulsa; Glenn Martin Mirando, Tulsa; Travis A. Pickens, OKC; Tom C. Riesen, OKC; Roger Dean Rinehart, El Reno; W Keith Thomas, Stillwater; Vicki Ruth Adams Werneke, Norman; John Morris Williams, OKC.

Committee Members: 2009 -- Robert Olen Brooks Jr., Pauls Valley; Angela Denise Chancellor, OKC; Donita Bourns Douglas, OKC; Avery Alvin Eeds Jr., Elk City; Robert John Fries, Enid; O. Clifton Gooding, OKC; Allen K. Harris, OKC; Gina Lynn Hendryx, OKC; J. Vince Hightower, Broken Arrow; Michael C. Howerton III, Muskogee; Melanie Jane Murphy Jester, OKC; Robert D. Looney, OKC; Sara Weer McFall, Norman; James Von Murray, Stillwater; C. Anne Wootten Richey, Blanchard; Julie Simmons Rivers, OKC; Thomas D. Robertson, Tulsa; Faye Christine Rodgers, Edmond; Julie Dianne Strong, Clinton; Don Stephen Strong, OKC; Sherrie Suzanne Woodrow, Purcell; Jesse J. Worten III, Pawhuska; A. Daniel Woska, Edmond.

Committee Members: 2010 – Judge Robert Edwin Bacharach, OKC; Valerie Lynn Baker, OKC; Amie Rose Colclazier, Seminole; Remona Kay Colson, Bartlesville; Richard James Denny III, OKC; Donna Lynn Dirickson, Weatherford; Daniel David Draper III, Owasso; Sarah Angela Evans, Norman; Robert Alden French, OKC; Phillip W. Gordon, Chickasha; Patricia W. Hatamyar, OKC; Jack Raymond Klahr Jr., Broken Arrow; William David Lafortune, Tulsa; Michael Shaw Loeffler, Bristow; LeAnne McGill, OKC; Stephen Joseph Modovsky, Tulsa; Michael C. Mordy, Ardmore; Ann Elena Murray, Chickasha; Janet Liddell Sharp, Norman; Sutton Aleksandra Smith Murray, Tulsa; Ricki Valerie Sonders, OKC; Peggy Stockwell, Norman; Kyle B. Wasson, OKC; James Reid Webb, OKC.

Aims and Objectives

1. The goal of the Lawyers Helping Lawyers Assistance Program is to provide appropriate referrals, support, intervention, mentoring and other assistance to those attorneys impaired by alcohol or drug use or having other mental health issues.
2. These goals and objectives are met through and by:
1. Utmost confidentiality
2. Statewide coordinated network of Committee members
3. Immediate Response and intervention
4. Personal assessment
5. Toll Free 800 number
6. Educational Programs
7. Journal Articles
8. Part-time Director