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West Legal Directory Profile - Firmsite Linda Crook Martin 
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Partner
phone (918) 582-1211
fax (918) 591-5360
email lmartin@dsda.com

Linda Crook Martin is the senior woman partner in Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, L.L.P., and has served as one of the managing partners of the firm. She received her Bachelors and her Law Degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee in 1972 and 1980, respectively, and was admitted to practice in Oklahoma in 1980.

Ms. Martin practices in the area of environmental and general commercial litigation, with over 20 years experience in these areas. She has served as an administrative law judge for the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality in the past, and has worked with Native American tribal officials in Oklahoma on environmental issues in several cases. She has been lead counsel for several municipalities in litigation with rural water districts concerning territorial disputes under federal law. She was one of the founding members and treasurer of the Environmental Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association. For 2005, Urban Tulsa Weekly selected Ms. Martin as one of the Top 100 Tulsans based on her expertise in environmental law.

She is also a member of the American Bar Association Section of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment and the Litigation Section. She is licensed to practice in both Oklahoma and Arkansas, and is admitted to practice in all federal courts in Oklahoma, the Western District of Arkansas, and the United States Supreme Court.

Ms. Martin has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2005 in the area of environmental law. She served as President of the Tulsa Women Lawyers Association in 1986, of which she is a founding member. She has been a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association for 26 years, and was co-chair of the 1996 and the 1997 Oklahoma Bar Association Women in Law Conferences, which, in 1997, brought U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Oklahoma as its keynote speaker. In 2003, the Oklahoma Bar Association, Women in Law Conference selected her as one of five recipients of the 2003 Mona Lambird Spotlight Awards recognizing her as an individual making a difference in the legal profession in Oklahoma.

Ms. Martin has been a member of the Tulsa County Bar Association for 26 years and has served on its Board of Directors. Ms. Martin was awarded one of the Tulsa County Bar's Golden Rule awards for professionalism in 1998, and in 2002, was selected as an Outstanding Senior Lawyer in 2007 and she was voted as a Trailblazer for Women in Law for the bar association's Centennial celebrations. She is one of only three women to be confirmed by the Oklahoma Senate to serve on the Oklahoma Mining Commission, where she served 2000-2004. In 2001, the Oklahoma City Journal Record selected Ms. Martin as one of fifty women Making a Difference in the State of Oklahoma as a finalist in the Woman of the Year program. Ms. Martin is a new member of the Federal Bar Association - the only organization representing the federal practitioner - an organization whose primary mission is to serve our members through advancing jurisprudence and enhancing the federal legal profession.

Areas of Practice:
General Commercial Litigation
Environmental Law
Environmental Litigation and Regulation
Bar Admissions:
Oklahoma, 1980
Education:
University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville, TN, 1980


University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1972
B.S.
Major:  Sociology


Classes/Seminars Taught:
Seminars for Continuing Legal Education, Environmental Law and Gender Bias


Honors and Awards:
"Golden Rule" Award for Professionalism, Tulsa County Bar Association, 1998


Listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Environmental Law, 2009


Outstanding Senior Lawyer, Tulsa County Bar Association, 2007


American College of Environmental Lawyers


Professional Associations and Memberships:
YWCA, Project Get Together
Member, Board


State Mining Commission, 2000 - 2004
Appointed by Governor of Oklahoma


Tulsa County Bar Association
Board of Directors


Oklahoma Bar Association, Environmental Law Section, 1992 - Present
Founding Member and Treasurer


American Bar Association, Section on Natural Resources, Energy & Environment
Member


American Bar Association, Litigation Section
Member


American Inns of Court, Chapter XXXII
Past Member


Tulsa Women Lawyers Association, 1986 - Present
President and Founding Member


Oklahoma Bar Association, 1996 - 1997
Co-Chair, Women in Law Conferences


The Oklahoma Conference for Community Justice, 2008 - Present
Member


Federal Bar Association, 2008 - Present
Member



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