President-Elect
D. Kenyon Williams Jr., Sperry

Ken Williams is a shareholder at the Tulsa office of Hall Estill Hardwick Gable Golden & Nelson PC, having joined the firm in 1996. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Williams served as in-house counsel for Helmerich & Payne after forming his own firm in 1977. He received his bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from TU and his J.D. from the TU College of Law. He is licensed in Oklahoma and Arkansas and represents businesses and communities in environmental, regulatory, administrative and litigation matters.

Mr. Williams has been active in the OBA and the Tulsa County Bar Association throughout his career. He has served in almost every TCBA position, including president in 2014 and Trustee of the Tulsa County Bar Foundation. While serving as president, the TCBA was awarded the OBA Outstanding County Bar Association Award. The association also received the OBA Hicks Epton Law Day Award for its outstanding Law Day while he was serving as TCBA Law Day chair.

In the OBA, Mr. Williams currently serves as vice president, has served as governor for the 6th Judicial District on the Board of Governors and as a master, vice chief master and presiding master for the Professional Responsibility Tribunal. He currently serves as chair of the Professionalism Committee and has also served as chair of the Environmental Law Section and on various other OBA committees. Currently, Mr. Williams serves on the Budget Committee and the Judicial Professional Responsibility Commission.

He is a frequent CLE presenter and the recipient of the OBA Earl Sneed Award in recognition of his contribution to continuing legal education. The TCBA also awarded him the Gary C. Clark Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his many years of service to the TCBA and the legal profession.

Mr. Williams serves as an elder of The Park Church of Christ, where he and his wife, Teresa, and two of their three adult children and families also attend. Their third adult child and two of their eight grandchildren live in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Vice President
Amber Peckio Garrett, Tulsa

Amber Peckio Garrett is a solo practitioner with the Amber Law Group in Tulsa. As an AV-Rated Preeminent attorney with over 20 years of trial experience, Ms. Peckio Garrett specializes in litigation, insurance dispute litigation, complex family litigation and personal injury litigation. She also works extensively in the newly established cannabis law field in Oklahoma and routinely counsels Oklahoma businesses in all cannabis-related legal matters.

Ms. Peckio Garrett is a past governor for the OBA Board of Governors and chairs the newly formed OBA Cannabis Law Committee. She is also a member of the American Bar Association, where she serves as vice chair for the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section Cannabis Policy and Law Committee and as state membership chair for Oklahoma.

She has previously served the OBA as an Oklahoma Bar Foundation Trustee (2014-2019), Women in Law Committee past chairperson (2007), Lawyer Advertising Task Force member (2007), Young Lawyers Division board director for Tulsa (2006-2014), Professionalism Committee member, Law Related Education Committee chairperson, Solo and Small Firm Conference Planning Committee member, Audit Committee member (2022), graduate of the inaugural OBA Leadership Academy (2009) and as a frequent CLE speaker. She is also the co-host of the Between Two Weeds: The Joint Sessions Cannabis Legislation update CLE for the OBA.

She received her J.D. from the TU College of Law in 2003 and is admitted to practice in all courts in the state of Oklahoma and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Northern and Western districts of Oklahoma and the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ms. Peckio Garrett lives in Tulsa with her fiancé, C. Alex Stodghill, and their beloved dogs, Woody, Bulliet and Hendricks. She was active in the Tulsa County Bar Association, having served as vice president (2020), secretary (2019) and small firm director (2021). As a graduate of the TU College of Law, she has served as a past member of the Alumni Association board. Ms. Peckio Garrett is also a sustaining member of the Junior League of Tulsa.

Supreme Court Judicial District One
William Ladd Oldfield, Ponca City

William Oldfield was born in Stillwater and grew up in Osage County. He graduated from OSU with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and received his J.D. from the OU College of Law. He was admitted to the Oklahoma bar in 2005.

Mr. Oldfield is a partner with the Ponca City law firm of Northcutt, Clark, Oldfield & Jech, where his practice is primarily focused on civil litigation. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Western, Northern and Eastern districts of Oklahoma. He also serves as the chief trial court judge for the Osage Nation.

Supreme Court Judicial District Six
Philip D. Hixon, Tulsa

Philip D. Hixon is a shareholder in the Tulsa office of GableGotwals. He has more than 20 years of litigation and contract negotiation experience representing the interests of clients in a variety of legal matters including healthcare, construction, business counseling and general civil litigation, with approximately 25 state and federal appeals.

He received his J.D. summa cum laude and his graduate degree in business administration from OCU. He earned his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in business administration from the University of Central Oklahoma.

Mr. Hixon is active with the bar and in the Tulsa community. He is a past president of the Tulsa County Bar Association and was honored with the TCBA's Distinguished Service Award in 2020-2021, as its Outstanding Young Lawyer in 2003-2004 and as the President’s Award recipient in 2020-2021 and 2003-2004. He has served on the OBA Budget Committee. He also serves on the board and executive committee of Morton Comprehensive Health Services and the board of the Will Rogers Memorial Foundation. He is a past board member of Tulsa Habitat for Humanity and Rebuilding Together Tulsa and a former commissioner of the Will Rogers Memorial Commission.

Supreme Court Judicial District Seven
Chad Alexander Locke, Muskogee

Chad Locke graduated from the University of Missouri ­– Kansas City School of Law in 2004. Licensed in both Oklahoma and Missouri, he joined the family practice in 2006 and has been a fixture in the community ever since. He is a member of the Muskogee County Bar Association and is admitted in the Muscogee Creek Nation and Cherokee Nation as well as the U.S. Eastern District Court of Oklahoma.

Mr. Locke has served on countless charitable boards, including Kids’ Space Child Advocacy Center, Monarch Inc., Muskogee Little Theatre, Five Civilized Tribes Museum and Downtown Muskogee Inc. He is a past president of the Exchange Club of Muskogee, Muskogee Young Professionals, and he was inducted into the 14th class of Leadership Muskogee. For the past four years, Locke Law Office has sponsored the All Pro Tour Junior Clinic, where Muskogee children have the chance to learn from professional golfers. Mr. Locke holds himself to the highest standards of integrity, hard work and fairness. When he isn't in the courtroom or helping around the local community, he enjoys traveling with his three daughters and wife, golfing, reading and spending time on the lake.

OBA YLD Chair
Laura Talbert, Oklahoma City

Laura Talbert works for ISN Corporation, which is the prime contractor for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide Mortgage Compliance Manager services. Ms. Talbert graduated from the OU College of Law in 2012 and worked as a prosecutor upon graduation. Prior to starting her own firm, she also worked for the General Counsel’s Office for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. In her free time, she enjoys playing volleyball and cheering on the Sooners. She has been on the YLD board for six years and is excited to continue serving.