Tony M. Graham was born in Mexico, Missouri, on May 17, 1949, and received his undergraduate education at the University of Missouri at Rolla, earning a B.S. in engineering management in 1971. Mr. Graham received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Tulsa in 1976 and was admitted to the Oklahoma bar in 1977. After law school, Mr. Graham began working as an attorney in an associate capacity with the firm of Boyd and Parks, a general practice partnership comprised of six attorneys. The practice involved criminal defense and civil litigation representing plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts.
In December 1978, Mr. Graham was appointed Special District Judge by the District Judges, 14th Judicial District, Oklahoma, and was assigned to the Criminal and Civil Divisions until October 1982. In October 1982, Mr. Graham was appointed by Governor George Nigh and later elected without opposition as District Judge, 14th Judicial District, Oklahoma, with full trial court jurisdiction and assigned to the Civil Division and served there until June 1987. Then in 1987, he was presidentially appointed United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. He was responsible for representing the United States of America in this district’s civil and criminal matters with 19 Assistant United States Attorneys plus support staff until an administration change in 1993.
After leaving the bench, Mr. Graham became a partner in the firm of Feldman, Franden, Woodard & Farris. He stayed with this firm for 9 years and was Managing Partner when he left. His primary emphasis was insurance and corporate litigation, lender liability, defense of financial institutions, directors, and officers, construction litigation, commercial litigation, product liability, and white-collar criminal defense. In 2022, Tony took retirement status. Congratulations, Tony!
