Sarah Lee Gossett Parrish is a third-generation attorney. She maintains a civil litigation practice and is admitted to practice in Oklahoma and in Texas. She also is admitted to practice before the Western, Northern, and Eastern United States District Courts in Oklahoma; the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. She is a member of the Oklahoma County Bar Association, Oklahoma and Texas Bar Associations, the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, and Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity.
Ms. Parrish received her B.A. in Letters from the University of Oklahoma, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, in December 1982. She was a Rhodes Scholarship Nominee Gulf Region Finalist in 1982-1983, and was awarded the Silver Letzeiser Medal for Outstanding Senior, University of Oklahoma, 1983. She also served as Chairman of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women for the State of Oklahoma from 1982-1983 and was instrumental in starting the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame.
Ms. Parrish received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1986. She subsequently served as a law clerk for the Hon. Lee R. West, U.S. District Court for the W.D. of Oklahoma; the Hon. William J. Holloway, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and as a staff lawyer for Vice Chief Justice James R. Winchester of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Active in community and professional associations, Ms. Parrish served as President of the Oklahoma City Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, President of the Oklahoma City Pi Beta Phi Alumna Club, and is a Sustaining Member of the Oklahoma City Junior League. She currently serves on the Oklahoma Bar Association's Legal Education (LRE) Committee. Her legal thriller, Guilt of Innocence, placed second in the New York Law Journal's national fiction writing contest in December 2006. The Prologue and Chapter 1 may be found on the New York Law Journal's web site at www.nylawyer.com
