2026 Law Day Luncheon - The Rule of Law and the American Dream
Presented by the Tulsa County Bar Foundation

The Discovery Lab
11:30A -1:00P

Justice Dustin P. Rowe, District 2. Rowe is a lifelong resident of Tishomingo and a graduate of Tishomingo High School. At the age of 18, while still a senior in high school, he won election to the Tishomingo city council, where he served two terms as the youngest mayor in the state. Chief Justice Rowe earned his B.A. with honors from East Central University, where he was named a distinguished alumnus in 2025, and his J.D. from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where his graduating class awarded him the Professional Responsibility Award and the faculty awarded him the Joseph Rarick Award. He was named a Lee B. Thompson scholar while at O.U. He is an alumnus of the National Judicial College in Reno, NV, where he serves on the faculty. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at Oklahoma City University School of Law and on the Board of Visitors for the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

Rowe practiced law in Tishomingo from 2001 to 2019, during which he served as the city attorney for 18 years. He served as a special judge of the Chickasaw Nation District Court from 2005 to 2011 and as a district judge of the Chickasaw Nation District Court from 2011 to 2019. Rowe was appointed to the Supreme Court of Oklahoma by Governor J. Kevin Stitt on November 20, 2019. He assumed office on December 20, 2019. Justice Rowe was retained by voters on November 8, 2022, and served as Vice-Chief Justice for 2023-2024. His colleagues elected Rowe to serve as Chief Justice for a two-year term beginning January 1, 2025.

The Discovery Lab
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