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In addition, she has served as judge of the Oklahoma Court of Appeals temporary division.Zimmerman was named to the 2007 American Bar Register of Pre-eminent Lawyers and received the Outstanding Community Leadership award from Oklahoma Adoption Coalition in 2003. Donita Bourns Douglas, director of OBA Educational Programs, has planned hundreds of Continuing Legal Education programs. Since becoming director, OBA/CLE has expanded to include online registration, Webcasts and online achieved video/audio programming. Douglas has made significant contributions to the OBA Women in Law Committee and is active in the Association of Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA). Her material, Creating the Gold Standard for Speaker Presentations, was included in The Best of ACLEA. Douglas currently is co-chair of the ACLEA special interest group that includes all state bar associations and Canadian provincial bar associations. She received the OBA President’s Award in 2003 and is a Fellow of the OBA Young Lawyers Division. She also has served on he OBA committee that drafted the Supreme Court settlement conference procedure. She is an emeritus member of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Inn of Court. Melanie J. Jester is a law clerk to U.S. Magistrate Valerie Couch of the Western District of Oklahoma. She previously worked at the law firm of Hartzog Conger & Cason in Oklahoma City where she had a broad litigation practice with concentration in business litigation, insurance defense and employment law. Jester has been an advocate for work life balance in the legal profession and chairs the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Work Life Balance Committee. She also has served on the OBA’s Access to Justice, Law School and Women in Law Committees. Jester has been an active member of the Oklahoma County Bar Association where she is a former member of the board of directors and currently serves on various committees. She is a master of the William J. Halloway Jr. American Inn of Court and has served on its executive board as program chair and treasurer. Linda G. Scoggins is a principal in the Oklahoma City law firm of Scoggins & Cross, PLLC. She practices primarily in health and employment law and litigation. She served four years as outside general counsel for the Oklahoma State Medical Association, Oklahoma Hospital Association, Oklahoma County Bar Association, Oklahoma City University School of Law and other medical and employment management groups. Scoggins has served as president of the Planned Parenthood board of directors.

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