Alumni Spotlight: Peckio Garrett and Jones named to Oklahoma Bar Association Leadership

October 14, 2025

OKLAHOMA CITY – A pair of Southeastern Oklahoma State University alumni will serve on the leadership the Oklahoma Bar Association in 2026.

Amber Peckio Garrett will serve as the OBA’s President in 2026. The 1999 Southeastern graduate is a solo practitioner with the Amber Law Group in Tulsa. As an AV-Rated Preeminent attorney with more than 20 years of trial experience, Peckio Garrett primarily practices in litigation, insurance dispute litigation, complex family litigation, and personal injury litigation. She also works extensively in the newly established cannabis law field in Oklahoma and routinely counsels Oklahoma businesses in all cannabis-related legal matters.

In 2025, Peckio Garrett serves as president-elect on the OBA Board of Governors after having served as vice president in 2024. She is the past chair of the OBA Cannabis Law Committee and a member of the American Bar Association, where she previously served as vice chair of the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section Cannabis Policy and Law Committee and as state membership chair for Oklahoma. She also co-hosted “Between Two Weeds – Joint Sessions: 2025 Cannabis Legislation Preview” for OBA CLE.

She served the OBA as an Oklahoma Bar Foundation Trustee from 2014 to 2019, Women in Law Committee chair in 2007, Lawyer Advertising Task Force member in 2007, Young Lawyers Division board director for Tulsa from 2006 to 2014, Professionalism Committee member, Law Related Education Committee chair, Solo and Small Firm Conference Planning Committee member, Audit Committee member in 2022, graduate of the inaugural OBA Leadership Academy in 2009 and a frequent CLE speaker.

She was also active in the Tulsa County Bar Association, having served as vice president in 2020, secretary in 2019 and small firm director in 2021. She received her J.D. from the TU College of Law in 2003 and is admitted to practice in all courts in the state of Oklahoma and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Northern and Western districts of Oklahoma and the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. She is also a sustaining member of the Junior League of Tulsa.

Chris D. Jones of Durant was elected to the OBA’s Board of Governors, representing Supreme Court Judicial District 2. Jones was raised in Bryan County and earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics education from Southeastern in 1997. He then obtained an MBA from the University of Central Oklahoma and graduated cum laude from the OCU School of Law, where he was active in many organizations, including the Oklahoma City University Law Review and mock trial team. After law school, he threw out his shingle in Durant, where he is currently a solo practitioner. He is admitted to practice in the federal courts of the Eastern, Western and Northern districts of Oklahoma. Mr. Jones, his wife, Leann, and their two young children run a cattle ranch in Bryan County. They love to cruise in their spare time.

More information on the Oklahoma Bar Association can be found at www.OKbar.org.