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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	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 her three daughters, Allison Lambird Watson, Elizabeth Lambird Youngblood and Susannah Lambird Collier.^[13]

References

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

Bibliography

1963 Commencement Exercises (PDF) (Report). Baltimore, Maryland: University of Maryland. June 8, 1963. Retrieved 18 December 2015.

Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame

1980s

1982	Hannah Diggs Atkins Kate Barnard June Brooks Gloria Stewart Farley Aloysius Larch-Miller Susan Ryan Peters Christine Salmon Edyth Thomas Wallace
1983	Zelia N. Breaux Kate Frank Leona Mitchell Jean Pitts Juanita Stout Alma Wilson
1984	Angie Debo Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick Jewell Russell Mann Zella J. Patterson
1985	Mae Boren Axton June Tompkins Benson Pam Olson Betty Durham Price Bertha Frank Teague
1986	Sara Ruth Cohen Vinita Cravens Rubye Hibler Hall Elizabeth Ann McCurdy Holmes Grace Elizabeth Hudlin Wilma P. Mankiller Edna Mae Phelps Evelyn La Rue Pittman

1990s

1993	Marie Cox Anita Faye Hill Moscelyne Larkin Jasinski Jacqulyn C. Longacre Shannon Lucid Clara Luper Opaline Deveraux Wadkins Pat Woodrum
1995	Nancy Goodman Feldman Barbara J. Gardner Ruthe Blalock Jones Mona Salyer Lambird Gloria Grace Langdon Bernice Compton Mitchell Donna Nigh
1996	Betty Boyd Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Lela Foreman Sandy Ingraham Lorena Males Bernice Shedrick Valree Fletcher Wynn
1997	Isabel Keith Baker Jessie Thatcher Bost Norma Eagleton Kay Goebel Ruth Gilliland Kistler Hardaman Beverly Horse Mazola McKerson Penny Baldwin Williams

2000s

2001	Jari Askins Shirley Bellmon Dorothy Moses DeWitty Sandy Garrett Lynn Jones Yvonne Kauger Jill Zink Tarbel Dana Tiger
2003	Esther Houser Vicki Miles-LaGrange Linda Morrissey Lynn Schusterman Donna Shirley
2005	Wanda L. Bass Nancy L. Coats Mary Fallin Amelia Elizabeth "Bessie" Simison McColgin Jeanine Rhea Stephanie Kulp Seymour
2007	Sherri Coale Ginny Creveling Joe Anna Hibler Maxine Horner Kay Martin Terry Neese Claudia Tarrington Carolyn Thompson Taylor Della Warrior
2009	Rita Aragon Suzanne Edmondson Edna Miller Hennessee Kim Henry Marabeau Looney M. Susan Savage Carolyn Whitener

2010s

2011	Laura Boyd Chloe Brown Joy Culbreath Marcia Mitchell Ardina Moore Cynthia Ross Kathy Taylor Helen Harrod Thompson
2013	Ida Blackburn Elaine Dodd Lou Kerr Terri Watkins Nancy Miller Linda Haneborg
2015	LaDonna Harris Mary Mélon Marion Paden Thelma Parks Ramona Paul Patty Roloff Avis Scaramucci
2017	Linda Cavanaugh Glenda Love Pat Potts Meg Salyer Rhonda Walters Edith McKinney Gaylord
2018	Susan Chambers Jayne Anne Jayroe-Gamble Joan Gilmore Willa Johnson Kay Rhoads
2019	Noma Gurich Helen Holmes Judy Love Ollie Starr

2020s

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2023	Mo Anderson Patricia Fennell Ann Felton Gilliland Donna Grabow Kim Garrett Funk Cathy Keating Freddye Harper Williams

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