Jot Hartley has been a licensed practicing attorney since 1977. He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma in 1977 and earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance from Oklahoma State University in 1974. During the past 30 years, Mr. Hartley has been involved with all facets of private legal practice, including general, civil, trial, appellate and federal practice, real property, corporation, taxation, eminent domain, commercial, probate, personal injury, criminal defense, criminal prosecution and estate planning law.
Mr. Hartley serves as General Counsel to the Tulsa Development Authority, an urban renewal authority organized by the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Mr. Hartley’s practice has emphasized legal services to condemning authorities in Oklahoma and Missouri. He has been directly responsible for the acquisition, through eminent domain, of over 800 parcels of land. Condemnation proceeding have been filed by Mr. Hartley on these parcels in twenty counties in Oklahoma as well as the Northern and Eastern Federal District Courts of Oklahoma for property owned by restricted Indians. He is a veteran of over 75 jury trials to determine just compensation. Representative clients include The Oklahoma Department of Transportation, The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, Tulsa Development Authority, KAMO Power, The Grand River Dam Authority, Empire District Electric Company and the Cities of Broken Arrow and Vinita, Oklahoma.
Mr. Hartley is also an experienced title examiner having prepared hundreds of title opinions as the title examination attorney for the Farm Credit Services on real property located in eight counties in Northeast Oklahoma and various private clients for thirty years.
In addition to his law practice, Mr. Hartley and his family own and operate a registered Angus cattle ranch west of Vinita, Oklahoma known as Hartley Creek Ranch. Mr. Hartley is a past President of the American Angus Association, after eight years of service on its Board of Directors, and is a past President and Board Member of the Oklahoma Angus Association, Oklahoma Beef Incorporated and the Vinita Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hartley is a past President of the Home of Hope, an organization that provides services to the adult mentally handicapped.
