[2] He was previously appointed in 1998 after the death of Betty Shipley,[3] and reappointed in 2021.
Born in Tonkawa, Oklahoma,[2] Kreger has spent most of his life as a rancher.
[1] His father was a medical doctor who served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
[1] Kreger earned a bachelor's degree in animal science in 1961[7] and a master's in agricultural education in 1968 from Oklahoma State University.
[7] The High Plains Journal has published numerous poems by Kreger:[9]