Nancy Coats-Ashley [SEP] sex or gender
Nancy Coats-Ashley
Nancy Coats-Ashley was the first female lawyer for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in the five state area consisting of Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma. She also served as a District Court Judge for Oklahoma County beginning in 1995 and ending in 2004 with her retirement. During that time she started the Mental Health Court of Oklahoma County, one of the first courts of its kind in the Southwest. Coats-Ashley served as President of the Oklahoma Federal Bar Association, the Oklahoma Bar Foundation
court in Oklahoma County. This made Oklahoma among the first states to have
such a court and the first in the Southwest. Coats-Ashley served ten years in this position and retired in 2004. In 2005, she was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame.
The Nancy Coats-Ashley Community Foundation Scholar Award was established to honor Coats-Ashley's time as a Trustee of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation. The endowment fund supports Trustee Scholarship Initiative programs of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation.
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