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John M. O’Connor was appointed as Oklahoma’s nineteenth attorney general by Governor Kevin Stitt on July 23, 2021.

John has practiced law in Oklahoma for over 40 years, most recently in private practice at Hall Estill, a Tulsa-based law firm, with offices in Oklahoma City, Denver and Northwest Arkansas. Throughout his career, he has primarily focused on civil litigation including complex commercial and insurance litigation. He has also served as outside general counsel for numerous businesses of all sizes.

For each year since 1995, his peers have given John an AV peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell, the highest level of professional excellence and ethics at which an attorney can be ranked by peers. He has been recognized as an Oklahoma Super Lawyer, one of Oklahoma’s Top Rated Lawyers, and a Best Lawyer in America.

John was also one of 10 attorneys selected by the Editorial Board of the Tulsa Business Journal to be recognized among Tulsa's 2012 Power Attorneys. Oklahoma U.S. Senators Jim Inhofe, James Lankford and Tom Coburn have all nominated John to the Whitehouse for federal judgeships. In 2018, President Donald Trump nominated O’Connor as a candidate for United States District Judge for the Northern, Western and Eastern Districts of Oklahoma.

O’Connor earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science/public administration from Oklahoma State University and a law degree from the University of Tulsa College of Law.

He is an active member in the Tulsa community who prioritizes civic engagement. John is a past-President of the Rotary Club of Tulsa and served two terms as President and Director of Tulsa’s Ronald McDonald House. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Dillon International, Inc., an intercountry adoption agency, and as vice president of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma State University Alumni Association. Until recently, he also served on the Board of Trustees for OSU-Tulsa.

John and his wife, Lucia O’Connor, have been honored to chair fundraising efforts in Tulsa for the Salvation Army, the Red Cross, Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma, the Tulsa Ronald McDonald House, OSU-Tulsa, The OSU Center for Health Sciences and other charitable programs and ministries.

A Tulsa native, O’Connor has been married to his wife Lucia for 43 years. Lucia was born and raised in Buffalo, Oklahoma. She is a former Miss Oklahoma. Her career has been in marketing and public relations. Lucia graduated fromOral Robert’s University in Tulsa. They have four children and 10 grandchildren.

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Christian Nationalists Gather in Oklahoma to Spread the Big Lie

By Kyle Mantyla | April 22, 2022 

Televangelist Kenneth Copeland’s Victory Channel held a special broadcast of its weekly “Flashpoint” program Thursday night on the campus of Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma, where the Christian nationalist host and speakers railed against the outcome of the 2020 presidential election and spread the Big Lie that it had been stolen from former President Donald Trump.

Host Gene Bailey opened by acknowledging the various elected officials who were in attendance, such as Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor, multiple state senators and representatives, as well as various members of law enforcement and local elected leaders. Following the introductions, Bailey led the audience in praying that these leaders “cannot escape” God: “No matter what they do, they’re gonna run right into you.”

Bailey then began the program by declaring that “there’s one thing that I know for sure, and this is the raw truth: The raw truth was on Nov. 3, 2020, President Donald J. Trump won the election.”

“We’re still waiting on the election to be corrected, and we’re not going anywhere,” Bailey. “That election was rigged. It was stolen. But I got news for you, and I got news for you watching on television: There’s thousands of people in this room that say, ‘We’re taking our nation back!'”

“There is an agenda that’s not Democrat versus Republican,” Bailey proclaimed. “The agenda that’s in our nation right now is good versus evil—and I’m not calling any party evil although you can figure out probably where I’m coming from. … If you’re not willing to give up your nation to a woke agenda that’s not left, it’s liberal—it’s so far liberal, it’s out to destroy the very fabric of this nation,rip your children away from your families. … They want to educate your children. They want to take your kids from you. They don’t want you to do anything that resembles Christianity or stand up for what’s right or stand up for what’s truth.”

After leading the audience in a round of cheers and applause for Trump, Bailey was joined on stage by self-proclaimed “prophet” Hank Kunneman, who declared that President Joe Biden belongs in prison for treason.

“The thiefis being found,” Kunneman said. “They’re being exposed by the hand of God.”

“There is a payback coming,” he bellowed. “They’re talking about Biden’s poll numbers, what they really need to be talking about is cell numbers—not phone, prison cell numbers. These guys have committed a crime! They have committed treason against the United States of America and its Constitution. They did not care about you, your pocketbook, or your children, and they want everything inside of their demonic agendato bring you down and this nation. But I’m here to tell you that they are standing against something greater than all of us: It is Almighty God who loves the United States of America, and he loves his church, and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.”