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Title 10, O.S., fl 7302-1.1 authorizes the Board of Juvenile Affairs (Board) as the governing body for The Office of Juvenile Affairs. The Board consists of seven members appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Oklahoma Senate. The term of office for a board member is six years. Appointments are limited to two terms. The Board meets monthly in a manner consistent with the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act [Title 25, O.S., fl 301 et seq.].
The Board of Juvenile Affairs was created February 1, 1995. On February 14, 1995, the seven (7) members of the Board were appointed by Governor Frank Keating with the advice and consent of the Senate.
The Board of Juvenile Affairs sets broad policy for the Office of Juvenile Affairs (OJA) and is the rulemaking body for OJA. The board is responsible for reviewing and approving the budget, assisting the agency in planning activities related to the priorities and policies of the agency, providing a public forum for receiving comments and disseminating information to the public, and establishing contracting procedures for the agency and guidelines for rates of payment for services provided by contract.
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Gary A. Taylor is an attorney and Executive Director of Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, Inc., the statewide provider of civil legal services to low-income and senior Oklahomans. Mr. Taylor is also an ex officio member of the Oklahoma Access to Justice Commission, created by the Supreme Court of Oklahoma in 2004 to provide oversight and insure fair treatment for all Oklahomans in the civil and criminal justice systems. Throughout his 27 year legal career, he has been involved in children's issues, having served on post adjudicatory review boards, Oklahoma Bar Association committees and Legislative Task Forces regarding deprived children, adoption process and other matters affecting the welfare of Oklahoma's children. He was the named the outstanding Family Law Attorney by the Family Law Section of the OBA in 1994. He lives in Oklahoma City with his wife, Saundra, and son, Noah. |
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Edward L. Smith is the of Chief of Police for the Clinton Police Department with a long and distinguished career in law enforcement management. Chief Smith received his Master's Degree in Criminal Justice Administration from Oklahoma City University. He has also served as Assistant Director of the Oklahoma Alcohol Beverage Control Board (now the ABLE Commission) and as Leadership Assistant (Chief of Staff) to the Minority Leader of the Oklahoma State Senate. In 2002, Chief Smith was appointed by Gov. Keating to the OSBI Board of Commissioners. He has authored numerous articles that have been published in the Oklahoma Municipal League's Cities and Towns and the Oklahoma Police Chief's magazine. He has taught as an adjunct instructor of Criminal Justice at Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma State University, Southern Nazarene University, St. Gregory's University and was recently asked to teach a class at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. He has served on the Board of Directors of Youth Services of Oklahoma County and Grady County, as well as having served three terms as President of Chisholm Trail Mental Health. Mr. Smith also served as the Bethany Chamber of Commerce President. He has been selected as member of Leadership Oklahoma, Class XX. |
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George W. Lindley spent 30 years serving the citizens of Oklahoma, first as Special Judge and Associate District Judge, before being elected District Judge in 1978. He was Presiding Judge of the Southwest Judicial Administrative District from 1994 until his retirement in December of 2004. In addition, he was Chairman of the Oklahoma Trial Judges Association, Chairman of the Assembly of Presiding Judges, Presiding Judge of the Appellate Court on the Judiciary, a committee chairman for the National Conference of State Trial Judges, a National Center for State Courts faculty member, and an instructor for the National College of the State Judiciary.
A Duncan native, Judge Lindley graduated from the University of Oklahoma and obtained his law degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970. His wife, Susan, is currently a seminary student.
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Dr. Linda Ware Toure has served as a professional educator for over 30 years. She serves as Executive Director of Student Performance in Oklahoma City Public Schools.
Dr. Toure earned a Bachelor of Science in Education from Langston University. She also earned her Master of Education degree in Administration from the University of Central Oklahoma. Dr. Toure earned her doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction at Oklahoma State University in 1993.
She has served as a classroom teacher, principal and elementary school director. Dr. Toure has served as an educational consultant for school districts, community organizations, and other entities.
Dr. Toure is active in community and civic and educational organizations. A few of the organizations with which she is or has been affiliated in or leadership capacity include Langston University Alumni Association, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Oklahoma City Metropolitan Association of Black School Educators, National Association of Elementary School Principals and Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
She is married to former State Representative Opio Toure who served District 99 for thirteen years. She and her husband are proud parents of two sons, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren. The family is actively involved at St. Paul Baptist Church.
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T. Hastings Siegfried Hastings Siegfried is Chief Operating Officer of NORDAM’s Transparency Group (NTD), a leader in the production, manufacture and repair of transparency components for the aviation industry. Siegfried is responsible for the Transparency Group’s 3 locations worldwide. NTD is vertically integrated in the manufacturing of cast acrylic and stretched acrylic materials from which it manufactures and repairs transparency components for the aviation industry. NTD serves the Military, Commercial, Regional, Business and General Aviation and Flight Simulator Markets. These products include aircraft cabin windows, heated and unheated flight deck windows, wing tip and landing light lens, helicopter windows and windshields, military aircraft windows and lens and flight simulator back projections screens. The Transparency Group has two locations in Tulsa, Oklahoma and one location in Europe. The Transparency Group’s European facility is located in Manchester, United Kingdom.
Siegfried attended the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. After graduation, he spent several years in law enforcement, serving as a police officer with the Tulsa Police Department when he joined The NORDAM Group in 1997.
Active in numerous civic, business, cultural and community associations, Siegfried served on the Board of Directors for the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University, the Board of Directors for the Indian Healthcare Resource Center, the Board of Directors for the Tulsa Area United Way, the Airborne Law Enforcement Association Affiliate Council and the Sheriff’s Association.
Siegfried continues to stay active as a member of the Board of Trustees for Holy Cross College in Notre Dame, Indiana, and the Indian Nations Council Executive Board of the Boys Scouts of America. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Tulsa Metro Chamber of Commerce where he also serves on the Governmental Relations Committee. He is a member of the Young President’s Organization, serves as the President and is a member of the Board of Directors of The Committee of One Hundred-Tulsa, Inc. and is the Chairman of Tulsa Charity Fight Night.
Siegfried continues to stay involved in law enforcement and is an active Reserve Deputy for the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office and a member of the Tulsa County Sheriff S.W.A.T. and Special Operations Team. Throughout his more than 15 years of law enforcement experience, Siegfried has worked in many positions including Patrol, Homicide & Major Crimes Unit, Special Investigations Unit, Gangs Unit, Tulsa County Narcotics Unit, Motorcycle Squad, Transportation & Extradition Squad and Special Operations Team. He has also received numerous unit commendations for the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office Siegfried was the 2003 Honorary Chairman for the Citizens Crime Commission and was awarded the George W. Bush Presidential Volunteer Service Award for his work for the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office presented by the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation. He was named the 2008 Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Spokesperson for the State of Oklahoma and was a recipient of the 2008 Oklahoma Buckledown Award, the largest law enforcement recognition program in Oklahoma, for his outstanding performance in DUI and Seat Belt enforcement. Siegfried was a recipient of the 2009 American Red Cross Everyday Hero Award. Siegfried was recently appointed by the Governor of Oklahoma as a member of the
Board of Juvenile Affairs.
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Deanna Hartley-Kelso a native of Fort Worth, Texas, is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and currently serves as its Attorney General and Administrator for the Justice Division. Prior to serving in this capacity, Deanna also served as General Counsel for the Legal Division and was also the first Legislative Counsel for the Chickasaw Nation Legislature. Her prior employment includes general corporate work as Associate Corporate Counsel for Color Tile, Inc. in Fort Worth, Texas and General Counsel for Marketing Investors Corp. in Dallas, Texas. She is a 1993 graduate of Tulsa University Law School where she earned her J.D. and a 1989 graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington where she earned her B.A. in Political Science with a Minor in Business Administration.
Deanna is licensed to practice law by the State of Texas and the State of Oklahoma as well as the tribal courts of the Chickasaw Nation and Muskogee (Creek) Nation. She also is a member of the Oklahoma Indian Bar Association, Native American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association and a ten-year member of The College of the State Bar of the State of Texas.
As for community activities, she is the Vice Chair of the Chickasaw Foundation Board of Trustees, a citizen appointee to the Arkansas Riverbed Authority, an adjunct professor at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, and a previous volunteer for North Texas Legal Services-American Indian Law Project. Deanna also serves on numerous other boards and committees within the Chickasaw Nation as well as representing the Chickasaw Nation at the United Nations Working Group on the Draft Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Donnie L. Nero is the president of Connors State College in Warner, Oklahoma with campuses in Muskogee. His previous employment includes serving as the provost of Tulsa Community College - Southeast Campus. Nero was employed at Tulsa Community College - Southeast Campus for 15 years where he served in numerous capacities including: member of the development team, coordinator of self-study, coordinator of multicultural education, coordinator of staff development, coordinator of marketing management, instructor of psychology of human relations and dean of student services.
Nero earned his bachelor’s degree in health, physical education and recreation at East Central University where he received the distinguished alumnus award in 2002. He earned both his master’s in educational administration and his doctorate in occupational and adult education at Oklahoma State University.
Nero has received various awards including the Phi Theta Kappa International Shirley B. Gordon Award of Distinction and Phi Theta Kappa Distinguished CEO for the Oklahoma/Arkansas Region. He is a founder of the Oklahoma Legal Issues Conference, a graduate of Leadership Tulsa Class XVIII and Oklahoma State Coordinator of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.
Nero has also served as an Oklahoma Quality Award Examiner, president of the Muskogee Area Educational Consortium, Indian Capital Technology Center and the Muskogee Rotary club. He has also served on the board of the Muskogee Chamber of Commerce, Greater Muskogee Development Corporation, Tulsa Area United Way, Volunteer Center of Tulsa, Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce, Big Bothers and Sisters of Tulsa and numerous other organizations
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