Former Seminole resident lands post at OBA

Oklahoma City lawyer Gina L. Hendryx was named Oklahoma Bar Association general counsel.
Hendryx is a former resident of Seminole and still has business and property interests in Seminole County. She graduated from Seminole High School in 1976 and is the daughter of the late longtime Seminole residents Hershell and Reba Hendryx.
In her new position, Hendryx will act as the chief disciplinary counsel supervising a staff of 12 and will serve as the association’s counsel on other legal matters. She will also be responsible for supervising the attorney diversion program and making presentations concerning lawyer ethics and disciplinary issues. She will work with the Professional Responsibility Commission, a group of lawyers and non-lawyers, charged with the duty of considering and investigating any alleged grounds for professional discipline or alleged incapacity of any lawyer. In addition, she will serve as a liaison to the OBA Board of Governors, OBA committees, the courts and other local and national entities concerning lawyer ethics issues.
Since 2003, Hendryx has been OBA ethics counsel, assisting bar members facing ethical dilemmas in their practice of law, lecturing and writing on current ethics issues in addition to implementing the diversion program.
She began her legal career in law school working as a legal intern for John W. Norman in Oklahoma City and became an associate with the firm upon graduation. She litigated a myriad of personal injury matters including products liability, environmental torts and trucking accidents. For seven years, she was lead counsel on 443 product liability cases stemming from asbestos exposure at an Oklahoma tire plant. Her responsibilities included managing a staff of attorneys and legal assistants. In 1997, she opted to explore the nonprofit legal sector with Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City and was the litigation attorney in its Senior Law Project. She represented low income senior citizens in civil disputes and trained new attorneys in addition to assisting attorneys with trial presentations. She left the nonprofit to become the OBA’s first ethics counsel.
Hendryx holds a bachelor’s of science degree from Oklahoma City University and earned her law degree from the OCU School of Law.