Mona Salyer Lambird

Mona Salyer Lambird
Born Mona Sue Salyer
(1938-07-19)July 19, 1938
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Died August 25, 1999(1999-08-25) (aged 61)
Çankırı, Turkey
Nationality American
Alma mater Wellesley College
University of Maryland School of Law
Occupation attorney
Years active 1964-1999
Known for first woman president of the Oklahoma Bar Association
Spouse(s) Perry Albert Lambird (m. 1960)

Mona Salyer Lambird (1938–1999) was an Oklahoma lawyer who became the first woman president of the Oklahoma Bar Association and the first woman elected to the Board of Governors of the Oklahoma Bar Association. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 1995.

Biography

Mona Sue Salyer was born on July 19, 1938 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Pauline and B.M. Salyer, Jr. She pursued an undergraduate degree in Economics graduating with honors in 1960 from Wellesley College.[1] That same year, she married Perry Albert Lambird[2] (1960-1999).[3] The couple moved to Baltimore and Lambird enrolled in the University of Maryland School of Law. During her schooling, she was the Editor of the Maryland Law Review.[1] She graduated in 1963, with honors,[4] earning the Elizabeth Maxwell Carroll Chestnut Prize[5] as a member of the Order of the Coif.[1]

Career

After graduation, she worked in the US Attorney's Office in the Justice Department in Washington, D.C.[6] In 1971, Lambird joined Andrews, Davis, Legg, Bixler, Milsten and Price, where she later became partner in 1977. Her practice concerned general civil, state and federal litigation with a focus on employment law disputes with administrative agencies and on behalf of management.[1] In 1989, she was honored as The Journal Record′s Corporate Woman of the Year.[7] That same year, she was elected as the first woman to head the Oklahoma County Bar Association, serving as vice president from 1989 to 1990 and president from 1990 to 1991.[8] From 1992 to 1994 she was elected as the first woman to serve on the Board of Governors of the Oklahoma Bar and in 1996,[1] Lambird was sworn in as the first woman president of the Oklahoma Bar Association.[7][9] She was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 1995[10] and in 1996, was honored with the Wall of Fame Humanitarian Award from the Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation.[11] In 1998, the Spotlight Award, given annually to five Oklahoma women of distinction in the legal profession, was renamed as the Mona Salyer Lambird Spotlight Award by the Oklahoma Bar Association.[12]

Lambird, her husband and a daughter, Jennifer, were killed in an automobile accident while on vacation in Çankırı, Turkey.[3] They were survived by another daughter, Allyson Watson.[13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Mona Sue Salyer Lambird". Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: New OK. August 31, 1999. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Oklahoma News of Local Interest". San Mateo, California: The Times. 4 January 1960. p. 17. Retrieved 18 December 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 "Perry Albert Lambird, Mona Sue Salyer Lambird, Jennifer Salyer Lambird". Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: News OK. September 1, 1999. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  4. ↑ Commencement Exercises 1963, p. 59.
  5. ↑ Commencement Exercises 1963, p. 77.
  6. ↑ "Visitor". El Paso, Texas: El Paso Herald Post. September 9, 1964. p. 26. Retrieved 18 December 2015 – via Newspaperarchive.com.
  7. 1 2 "OBA Chooses Mona Lambird as President-Elect". Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: The Journal Record. November 26, 1994. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  8. ↑ Skoch, Lauren (July 11, 1989). "County Bar Elects Woman To Presidency". Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: News OK. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  9. ↑ "City Lawyer Sworn In As State Bar President". Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: News OK. January 13, 1996. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  10. ↑ "Tulsans Inducted Into Women's Hall of Fame". Tulsa, Oklahoma: Tulsa World. August 26, 1995.
  11. ↑ Gilmore, Joan (October 16, 1996). "Honoring Mona Lambird". Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: The Journal Record. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  12. ↑ Bruce, Deborah J. (2012). "Lighting the Way: 2012 Mona Salyer Lambird Spotlight Award Recipients". Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Bar Association News. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  13. ↑ "Prominent female lawyer dies in Turkey car wreck". Amarillo, Texas: Amarillo Globe-News. Associated Press. August 29, 1999. Retrieved 18 December 2015.

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