Noma Gurich

Noma D. Gurich (born September 26, 1952) is an American attorney and jurist who is serving as an associate justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Gurich was appointed the State's highest court by Governor Brad Henry in 2010 and assumed office on February 15, 2011. Gurich was appointed to the Court following the death of long-time Justice Marian P. Opala. Gurich is the third woman in state history after Alma Wilson and Yvonne Kauger to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Biography Gurich was born in South Bend, Indiana. She received a bachelor's degree in political science in 1975 from Indiana State University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1978. She was a lawyer in private practice in Oklahoma City ten years later when Republican Governor Henry Bellmon appointed her a judge of the Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Court. She was reappointed for a second term to that court by Democratic Governor David Walters in 1994. In July 1998, Republican governor Frank Keating appointed Gurich as judge of the District Court for Oklahoma County, a position she was then reelected to in 2002, 2006, and 2010. While serving as a district judge, Gurich served as the presiding judge of both the 11th and 12th Multi-County Grand Juries (2007–2008 and 2009–2010) by order of the chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. In January 2011, following the death of long-time Justice Marian P. Opala, Democratic governor Brad Henry appointed Gurch to the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Gurich is married to John E. Miley, general counsel for the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. Justice Gurich and her husband have been married for 17 years.