Cheryl P. Hunter was appointed by Gov. Keating in 2000 and unanimously confirmed by the Senate as a member of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. She has served as chairman of the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System Board and was also a commissioner on the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation. She previously served as a member of the Governor's Commission on Government Performance in 1994 and 1995. She was legal counsel in the state of Oklahoma for Bush for President, Inc.
Hunter is a partner of the law firm of Kirk & Chaney in Oklahoma City. Her law practice primarily involves employment and commercial litigation, real estate law, acquisitions, corporate/commercial law and insurance/receivership law. Hunter graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in business administration and received her juris doctorate in 1982 from the University of Oklahoma.
Since graduating from law school, Hunter has practiced law on a full-time basis. She has also been very active in state and county bar association activities, having served the Oklahoma County Bar Association as president of the Young Lawyers Division; chairman of the Law Day Judicial Evaluation and Bench and Bar Committees, and vice-chairman of the Constitutional Bicentennial Committee. In 1993, she was elected vice president of the Oklahoma County Bar Association. Her Oklahoma Bar Association service includes editor and chairman of the Financial Institutions and Commercial Law Section and a board member of the Young Lawyers Section.
Hunter is a master in the Luther Bohanon American Inn of Court XXIII, member of the Central Oklahoma Federalist Society, member of the University of Oklahoma College of Law Board of Visitors and has authored scholarly articles, including Net Gifts: Let the Donor Beware, @ 34 Oklahoma Law Review 887, Issue 4, 1981 and Oklahoma Governor’s Commission on Government Performance: The Use of EDI, Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 268, Volume 50, No. 3, along with speaking at continuing legal education seminars and business workshops. She is admitted to practice before the Oklahoma courts, Texas courts, U.S District Court for the Western, Northern and Eastern Districts of Oklahoma, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Tenth Circuits and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Hunter's husband Mike is the chief operating officer of the American Council for Life Insurers. They have two sons, Barrett and Brock.
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