University of Oklahoma College of Law

[6] According to OU Law's 2016 ABA-required disclosures, 83.9% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time, long-term positions for which bar passage was required (75.5%) or for which a J.D.

In 1992, a feminist group began a nationwide fundraising campaign and then obtained matching state funds to endow a professorship at the University of Oklahoma College of Law in honor of Hill.

[citation needed] Elmer Zinn Million, a local activist, compared Hill to Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President Kennedy.

[citation needed] The University of Oklahoma Law School defunded the Anita F. Hill professorship in May 1999, without the position having ever been filled.

[citation needed] In October 1999, ground was broken on a $19 million construction and renovation project which ultimately added 80,000 square feet to the facility.

Named in honor of then-Dean Andrew M. Coats, the facility features the 58,000-square-foot Donald E. Pray Law Library and the 250-seat Dick Bell Courtroom.

Alumni serving in the judiciary include Oklahoma Supreme Court Justices Ben Arnold, David Boren, Orel Busby, Tom Colbert, Richard Darby, Denver Davison, J. Howard Edmondson, Noma Gurich, Brad Henry, Frank Keating, Steven W. Taylor, Ben T. Williams and Patrick Wyrick; Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Judges Robert L. Hudson,[14] Gary Lumpkin,[14] and David B. Lewis;[14] Choctaw tribal judge Rebecca Cryer; and former 10th Circuit Judge Alfred P. Murrah.

According to OU Law's 2016 ABA-required disclosures, 83.9% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time, long-term positions for which bar passage was required (75.5%) or for which a J.D.

[7] Every year at orientation, OU Law asks every student in the incoming 1L class to sign a voluntary Pro Bono and Public Service Pledge.

[16] In the 2017-2018 academic year, OU Law students completed a record-breaking 24,024 hours of pro bono and public service.

Front of Andrew M. Coats Hall with an OU banner on a pole to the left
Andrew M. Coats Hall (2023)
The William J. Ross Courtyard at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
The William J. Ross Courtyard at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
College of Law Back with the seal and fountain
College of Law (2023)
The Donald E. Pray Law Library at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
The Donald E. Pray Law Library at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.