Robert D. Hudson

Robert D. Hudson was born in 1900. He received his law degree from Vanderbilt University in 1921, and was appointed one of the first Tulsa County Common Pleas Judges in 1922 at age 22. In 1926, he was appointed to the district bench to which he was elected in 1928. 

In 1929, he resigned from the bench at age 29 and entered private practice. 

He was elected president of the Tulsa County Bar Association in 1943 as a write-in candidate. He became somewhat of a legend as a trial lawyer of forty years. Over that period he participated in many of Tulsa's major and historic cases. Mr. Hudson was one of the first Fellows selected from Oklahoma when the American College of Trial Lawyers was formed in the 1950s. Mr. Hudson exemplified the American Inns of Court goals of competence, civility and ethics more than any gentleman trial lawyer. He died in 1969 sitting in court at the Tulsa County Courthouse. 

Amos T. Hall

Amos T. Hall was born in 1896. A self-taught lawyer, he passed the bar in 1925 after serving as custodian of the First Methodist Church. He was the first elected black judge in Oklahoma. He was named outstanding citizen of Tulsa by the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce. 

Judge Hall was a close and personal friend of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, as chief counsel of the NAACP, always associated with Mr. Hall in significant Oklahoma race litigation. This was a tribute to both Mr. Hall's ability and their close personal relationship. 

Amos Hall was a very kind, considerate and personable man. He had an innate humility that made him appear soft spoken. But when basic legal rights were involved, he was a dynamic advocate and a truly outstanding and articulate trial lawyer. He died in 1971. 

Norma Frazier Wheaton

Mrs. Wheaton was born in 1899 and admitted to the bar of Oklahoma in 1927. She was the first woman president of the Tulsa County Bar Association in 1946. She was the first woman lawyer on the Board of Governors of the Oklahoma Bar Association. She was the chair of the Insurance Section of the OBA for numerous years in the 1950s. She was the first names woman partner in a major Oklahoma law firm (Hudson, Hudson & Wheaton) in the late 1940s…twenty-five years before any other woman was made a partner. 

Mrs. Wheaton's trial work was primarily in commercial law, domestic relations, insurance subrogation and life insurance law, as well as contested wills and inheritance matters. Mrs. Wheaton was bilingual, speaking fluent Spanish. She was a truly outstanding lawyer. She died in 1973.