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Meet John O’Connor, The Tulsa Attorney Named Oklahoma’s New Attorney General
Tulsa attorney John O’Connor, named Oklahoma’s new Attorney General, has 40 years of experience in the field of law.
He’s an attorney based in Tulsa and a TU Law graduate.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt is a big fan of new Attorney General John O Connor. I personally have known John for over 20 years,” said Stitt. “He was a mentor to me when I was a young CEO here in Tulsa running my company.
Tulsa native O’Connor was most recently a partner at the law firm Hall Estill.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A Tulsa attorney whom the American Bar Association rated as “ not qualified ” to serve as a federal judge was tapped Friday by Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt to serve as the state’s next attorney general.
After a two-month search that began in May after Republican Mike Hunter stepped downsuddenly, Stitt selected John O’Connor, 66, to fill the vacancy, giving the governor an ally in his increasingly contentious relationship with some of the Native American tribes in the state. Stitt and Hunter, both Republicans, occasionally clashed on various matters, including over Stitt’s decision to renegotiate the state’s gaming compacts with Native American tribes.
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Hunter was appointed attorney general in 2017 by former Gov. Mary Fallin after then-attorney general Scott Pruitt was named head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Hunter won election to a four-year term in 2018 and was planning to run for another term next year.
O’Connor did not respond to an email inquiry Thursday about being named attorney general. He will be in office for only a little under 18 months unless he runs and wins election to the job.
He was born in Tulsa in 1954, received a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University in 1977 and his law degree from the University of Tulsa in 1980, according to a questionnaire he completed in 2018 for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.