FedArb Council
The Honorable William H. Webster, Chairman
U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
(1970-1973)
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
(1973-1978)

The Honorable John S. Martin
U. S. District Court, Southern District of New York (1990-2003)

The Honorable George C. Pratt
U. S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
(1976-1982)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
(1982-1995)

The Honorable Charles B. Renfrew
U. S. District Court, Northern District of California (1971-1980)

The Honorable Ralph G. Thompson
U.S. District Court, Western District of Oklahoma
(1975-2007)

Judge Thomas R. Brett (Ret)

Thomas R. Brett was a United States District Judge in Oklahoma from 1979 to 2003 (24 years), and served as Chief Judge from 1994 to 1996. He has been active in CPR and has extensive experience in arbitration and mediation. He practiced civil trial law from 1957 to 1979, and is a past president of the Tulsa County Bar Association and the Oklahoma Bar Association. He has received many awards regarding professionalism and ethics, and is a retired colonel in the U. S. Army Judge Advocate General.

Judge Brett graduated from the University of Oklahoma (J.D. 1971) and (B.B.A, 1953), and from the Command and General Staff College, Industrial College of the Armed Forces and Air War College. Before assuming the bench he was a practicing civil trial lawyer and Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Areas of ADR expertise are: commercial litigation, energy law, product liability, insurance law, banking law, ERISA, intellectual property, mass torts, employment law, environmental litigation and securities law.

Selected cases:

Atlantic Richfield v. American Airlines, 836 F.Supp. 763 (1993)

In re Anderson 94-1 U.S. Tax Cas. (CCH) P50,215 (N.D. OK 1994) (bankruptcy)

Conover v. Aetna US Healthcare, Inc., Case No. 167 F. Supp. 2d 1317 (N.D. OK 2001); 2001 (insurance)

Mayberry v. Akron Rubber Machinery Co., 483 F.Supp. 407 (1999)

Prudential Sec. v. Dalton, 929 F. Supp. 1411 (N.D. OK 1996) arbitration

Prenalta Corp. v. Colorado Interstate Gas Co., 944 F.2d 677 (10th Cir. 1991)

Westland Energy v. Bank of Commerce and Trust Co., 603 F.Supp. 698 (1984)

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