Appointed By: Judges of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma
The Hon. Gerald L. Jackson is a magistrate for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. He was appointed to the bench by the judges of the Eastern District of Oklahoma in 2022.
Prior to his appointment, Jackson was a shareholder at Crow & Dunlevy since 1999, where he specialized in commercial and corporate litigation and Indian law and gaming. Jackson also represented clients in state, federal, and tribal courts in complex business disputes, mass tort actions, and commercial arbitrations, and he gained experience in tribe‐state and intra‐tribal matters.
Before joining the firm, Jackson spent two years as assistant counsel to the Committee on Agriculture with the United States House of Representatives, where he represented committee members on matters involving international trade, nutrition, commodity distribution, environmental matters, food security, food safety, and commodity futures.
He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Missouri State University in 1987. Jackson then completed a J.D. at the University of Tulsa College of Law in 1990.
He was named among the Best Lawyers in Commercial Litigation and ranked in Oklahoma Super Lawyers for Business Litigation, Native American Law, and Energy & Natural Resources Law.
Jackson served as a state commissioner on the Uniform Law Commission and has been active locally with the Tulsa Area United Way, the Missouri State University Foundation Board of Trustees, and the Parent-Child Center of Tulsa Board of Directors.
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