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MUSCOGEE (CREEK) NATION
Justice Houston
I. Shirley
Justice Houston Shirley was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
and atten ded Tulsa Central High School. He received his Bachelor
of Arts degree from Oklahoma University with honors studies in
economics. Justice Shirley served as a First Lieutenant
with the United States Army as an Information Officer for both
the 1st and 4th Armored Divisions in Europe. He attended Infantry
Office School training at the same site of his tribal town in
Georgia, Rekvckv, or Broken Arrow Town. Mr. Shirley also attended
Armor and Calvary Officer Schools, and Department of Defense Information
School. He graduated from the University of Tulsa College
of Law specializing in oil and gas, business and Indian Law. Mr.
Shirley is a past president of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Bar
Association. He has worked as a natural gas contracts and regulatory
attorney for La-Vaca Gathering Company, Sector Refining Company
and Amax Oil & Gas, Inc. in Houston, Texas. He is admitted
to practice to the State Bars of Texas and Oklahoma. He is a member
of the U.S. Fifth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeal, and U.S.
District Courts in the Northern and Southern District of Texas
and the Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Oklahoma. Justice Shirley is a proud Creek citizen. His
great-great grandfather, Horris Berryhill, came to Oklahoma as
a boy during Removal from Alabama. He was a teacher in the Creek
Nation schools, teaching at Tokpvfkv. Mr. Shirley’s grandmother,
Gracie Berryhill, was born north of the present Kiefer where she
and her family took their allotments. Mr. Shirley practices law in Bixby, Oklahoma,
with the Law Office of Houston Shirley, a Professional Corporation,
primarily in areas of real estate, oil and gas, probate and estate
planning, business, and Indian Law. He is a member of the Bixby
United Methodist Church and Bixby Masonic Lodge, where Chief Pleasant
Porter was a charter member. He is married to Sally Shirley of
Liberty, Texas. They have two children, Elizabeth and Nathaniel. |
