14 Facts About Vicki Miles-LaGrange

Vicki Lynn Miles-LaGrange was born on September 30,1953 and is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.

Vicki Miles-LaGrange was the first African-American woman to be sworn in as United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

Vicki Miles-LaGrange was the first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma Senate.

Vicki Miles-LaGrange served as a law clerk to Woodrow Bradley Seals of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas from 1977 to 1979.

Vicki Miles-LaGrange was a graduate fellow in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, DC from 1979 to 1980, and a special assistant to the African Development Group, Washington, DC from 1980 to 1981.

Vicki Miles-LaGrange was, at the same time, a lecturer in the Women's Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1981.

Vicki Miles-LaGrange was a trial attorney of Office of Enforcement Operations, United States Department of Justice from 1982 to 1983.

Vicki Miles-LaGrange then entered the private practice of law in Oklahoma City from 1986 to 1993, and was during that period an Oklahoma State Senator from 1987 to 1993, making her the first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma State Senate along with Maxine Horner.

Vicki Miles-LaGrange was the United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma from 1993 to 1994.

Vicki Miles-LaGrange was nominated by President Bill Clinton on September 22,1994, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma vacated by Lee Roy West.

Vicki Miles-LaGrange was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 7,1994, and received her commission on November 28,1994.

Vicki Miles-LaGrange served as chief judge from 2008 to 2015.

Vicki Miles-LaGrange took inactive senior status on November 5,2018, meaning that while she remains a federal judge, she will no longer hear cases or participate in the business of the court.

Vicki Miles-LaGrange's preliminary ruling enjoining amendment of the Oklahoma Constitution to prohibit the state's courts from either "considering or using" international law or Islamic Sharia law attracted considerable attention.