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MUSCOGEE (CREEK) NATION
Justice Denette Mouser
Justice Mouser was born in Morris, Oklahoma, in 1954, and is a full citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Justice Mouser is the daughter of J.C. and Betty Mouser of Dustin, Oklahoma, and the granddaughter of the late Taylor and Dollie Fife and the late Amos and Rosetta Mouser. Ms. Mouser is the mother of two daughters, Alysia Jones of Arkansas, and Brooke Swanson of Oklahoma, and the grandmother of three grandsons, Jordan, Tre, and Jacob-Jaylen.
Justice Mouser grew up in Tulsa, graduating from Daniel Webster High School in 1972. Ms. Mouser worked in Tulsa as a professional photographer for several years, and then for several more years as a secretary in the oil and gas business. Ms. Mouser pursued her college education as a nontraditional student, completing a four year program in only three years, and graduating summa cum laude from the University of Central Oklahoma with a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy in 1996. She then attended the University of Oklahoma College of Law on a full academic scholarship, with an emphasis in trial skills and Federal Indian Law. Ms. Mouser earned her Juris Doctorate, with honors, in 1999. Following graduation from law school, Justice Mouser was first employed by Locke Liddell and Sapp, LLP, and then by Godwin Gruber, P.C. in Dallas, Texas, and focused her practice in general civil litigation, including sub-practice areas in Complex Litigation, Oil and Gas Litigation, Employment Litigation, and Mass Tort Litigation. In 2002, she moved to Rogers, Arkansas to join the legal department of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., where she currently is Senior Counsel managing the company's large complex litigation involving class actions and individual employment issues.
Justice Mouser is licensed to practice law in Oklahoma and Texas, and is admitted to practice in the 5th and 10th Circuit Courts of Appeal, as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Oklahoma, and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Western, and Eastern Districts of Texas. Justice Mouser is a member of the State Bar of Oklahoma, State Bar of Texas, American Bar Association, Muscogee (Creek) Nation Bar Association, National Native American Bar Association, National Employment Law Council, Corporate Counsel Women of Color, and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. |
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