Edmond lawyer sees benefit in varied interests

→Birth date: Feb. 17, 1956.

→Hometown: Durham, North Carolina.

→Residence: Edmond.

→Family: Wife, Barbara, and daughter, Susan, who just completed her freshman year at Oklahoma State University.

→Education: Bachelor’s degree in history from Duke University in 1977, masters of science degree (foreign service) and law degree from Georgetown University in 1981.

→Church: First Baptist Church, Oklahoma City.

→Civic/volunteer activities: Member of Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical Colleges, president of Rotary Club of Edmond, chairman of Oklahoma advisory committee for U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, board of advisers for Oklahoma City Command of Salvation Army, director for Historical Society for 10th Judicial Circuit, director for University of Central Oklahoma Foundation and trustee for Eureka College.

→What’s in your MP3 player?: I don’t have an MP3 player. Right now, in the CD player in my car is a college style course on philosophy. I just finished another one called "Famous Romans.”

→What newspapers and magazines do you read?: The Oklahoman, Edmond Sun, Edmond Life & Leisure, Daily O’Collegian, Langston Gazette, The Times Literary Supplement, The Chronicle of Higher Education, National Review, Atlantic Monthly, Christianity Today and a few others.