BIOGRAPHY
Donald A. Pape is a member of the Firm’s Financial Institutions Practice Group. He represents both privately held and public financial institutions in a wide range of banking and regulatory matters.
Don also formerly served as chair of the board of Republic Bank & Trust in Norman for nearly 30 years. He was formerly lead independent director for the board of the Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight, Raleigh, North Carolina, former member and Chair of the Bankers Advisory Board of the U.S. Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Washington, D.C. and formerly as a member of the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Board of Investors.
Additionally, Don has served as a member of the Article 8, Legislative Review Subcommittee of the Oklahoma Bar Association and the Oklahoma Banking Commissioner’s Banking Code Review Committee.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in a military family, he graduated from high school in Oklahoma City before attending the University of Oklahoma. After his own military service in the United States Air Force, Pape was discharged with the rank of Captain and returned to Norman, Oklahoma.
EDUCATION
- University of Oklahoma (B.A., 1967; J.D., 1973)
ADMISSIONS
- 1974, Oklahoma
- 1974, U.S. District Court, Western District of Oklahoma
- 2004, U.S. Supreme Court
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Oklahoma Bar Association
- Oklahoma County Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Cleveland County Bar Association