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Vicki Miles-LaGrange

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma · 1994

Vicki Miles-LaGrange , Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. Vicki Lynn Miles-LaGrange (née Miles; born September 30, 1953) is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. She was the first African-American woman to be sworn in as United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. She was also the first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma Senate.

Education

  • University of Ghana1973
  • Vassar CollegeB.A., 1974
  • Howard University School of LawJ.D., 1977

Career

Law clerk, Hon. Woodrow Seals, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1977-1979; Graduate fellow, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1979-1980; Special assistant, African Development Group, Washington, D.C., 1980-1981; Lecturer, Women's Studies Program, University of Maryland, 1981; Trial attorney, Office of Enforcement Operations, U.S. Department of Justice, 1982-1983; Assistant district attorney, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, 1983-1986; Private practice, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1986-1993; State senator, Oklahoma, 1987-1993; U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, 1993-1994

Biography

Vicki Lynn Miles-LaGrange (née Miles; born September 30, 1953) is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. She was the first African-American woman to be sworn in as United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. She was also the first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma Senate.

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