J. Angela Ables
Firm President, Managing Senior Partner

Phone: (405) 272-9221
Fax: (405) 236-3121

E-mail: aables@kiralaw.com

Andrea Puckett - Secretary
E-mail: apuckett@kiralaw.com

Practice Areas:  Insurance regulatory, insurance defense, administrative law, corporate and business mergers, acquisitions, transactional law.

Experience:  Staff of Speaker Carl Albert, Washington, D. C.; Assistant Attorney General for the State of Oklahoma 1976-1978; Deputy Insurance Commissioner 1978-1985; private practice at Kerr, Irvine, Rhodes & Ables 1985-present.

Education: Graduated Ada High School (1968); graduated East Central University 1972 with Honors; Received Juris Doctor degree from Oklahoma City University School of Law 1975.

Affiliations: Oklahoma County Bar Association (1985 to present); Oklahoma Bar Association (1976 to present); American Bar Association (1985 to present); Federation of Regulatory Counsel Charter Member (1987 to present); Oklahoma Association of Defense Counsel.

Court Memberships: Oklahoma Supreme Court (1976 to present); U. S. District Court for the Western District (1981 to present); Northern (1976 to present) and Eastern (1998 to present) Districts of Oklahoma; U. S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (1978 to present); United States Supreme Court (1984 to present).

Published Opinions:  State ex rel. Turpen v. Oklahoma State Bd. For Property and Casualty Rates, 1986 OK 54, 731 P.2d 394; Horton Ins. Agency, Inc. v. Robinson, 1991 OK CIV APP 74, 824 P.2d 397; PacifiCare of Oklahoma v. Oklahoma Health Care Authority Board; et al., 2001 OK CIV APP 73, 25 P.3d 930;  

Published Articles:  Federation of Regulatory Counsel, Quarterly Journal of Insurance Law and Regulation, June 8, 2002, Vol. IX, Edition II, “Accountant’s New Liability in Oklahoma”. Federation of Regulatory Counsel, Quarterly Journal of Insurance Law and Regulation, September 9, 2000, Vol. XII, Edition III, “Piercing the Corporation Veil In Insurance Bad Faith Cases”.

Civic: President of Lyric Theatre (1996-1998) and Director Emeritus (2005-present); Chairman of the Carl Albert Foundation (1996-present); Oklahoma Attorneys Mutual Insurance Company Board of Directors (2001-present); BancFirst Community Board of Directors (2004-present); Chairman of the Oklahoma Bar Association Group Insurance Committee (2000-present); Donna Nigh Foundation Executive Committee; Democratic National Convention Platform Committee Member (1996); Member of the Oklahoma County Bar Association Fee Grievance and Ethics Committee (2005-present); Advisor to Chi Omega sorority at the University of Oklahoma  1991-2003; Fellow of the Oklahoma  Bar Foundation (2004-present); Trustee of the ECU Foundation (1975 to present) and member of the Executive Committee (2003-present);  ECU President’s Circle member (2006); ECU Alumni Association Lifetime Member (1990  to present); Vice-Chairman Oklahoma State Election Board (1985-1988); Appointed by the Federal District Judges to serve as an Arbitrator for the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.

Listings: A.M. Best’s Insurance Attorneys,

Honors:  Listed in The Best Lawyer’s In America, 2007
                ECU Outstanding Alumnus, 1983