Vicki Miles-LaGrange

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name=Vicki Miles-LaGrange


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Vicki Miles-LaGrange is a U.S. District Judge in the Western District of Oklahoma. She was the first African American woman to be sworn in as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. She was also the first African American female elected to the Oklahoma Senate.

Judge Miles-LaGrange, a native of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma graduated cum laude from Vassar College in 1974. She received a certificate from the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. She then received her J.D. from Howard University in Washington, DC, where she was editor of "The Howard Law Journal".

She served as chairman of the Oklahoma Senate Judiciary Committee, the Oklahoma Legislative Black Caucus, and the Law and Justice Committee of the National Conference of State Legislators. During her years in the Oklahoma Legislature (1986-1993), she also conducted a private law practice. Earlier in her career, Miles-LaGrange worked as a criminal trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, DC. She later prosecuted sex crimes as an Assistant District Attorney in Oklahoma County.

She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and currently serves as regional director for the Midwestern Region. She is also a member of The Links, Incorporated.

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* [http://pview.findlaw.com/cmd/profileview?wld_id=1375183_1&channel=&print=1 Find Law Profile]
* [http://akamidwestern.com/home.html Alpha Kappa Alpha Midwestern Region]
* [http://www.buffalo.edu/uncrownedqueens/Q/files/miles-lagrange_vickie.html Uncrowned Queens:Vicki Miles-LaGrange]
* [http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/1205/ijde/lagrange.htm Access to Justice, Reform in Rwanda]