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TULSA, OK - Congressman Brad Carson (D-Okla.), will be the featured guest speaker for the Tulsa Chapter April 12, 2001 luncheon of the American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma. The luncheon will be held at Tulsa Country Club (off Edison, just west of Denver) in Tulsa. Meeting time is 11:30 a.m. and is open to the public. For questions or additional information, please contact Roger Peacock, 918-665-0639, or Cathy Wilkins, 918-298-6135.

Brad Rogers Carson was elected November 7, 2000 as the Congressman for the Second District of Oklahoma and was sworn in on January 4, 2001. Carson, a Cherokee, is the only enrolled Native American among Oklahoma’s congressional delegation.

Congressman Carson was born March 11, 1967, in Winslow, Arizona to Jack and Jimmie Ruth Carson. He is a 6th generation resident of Oklahoma's Second District.

Brad Carson is an honors graduate from Baylor University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was selected as a Rhodes Scholar and attended Oxford University representing Oklahoma. He received his master's degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford. Upon returning to the United States, Congressman Carson attended the University of Oklahoma College of Law, graduating in 1994. He was named Outstanding Law School Graduate.

Prior to his election, Congressman Carson practiced law as an attorney in private practice. Committed to using his legal skills for the public good, he devoted one-third of his time to free representation of poor and indigent clients. Because of Congressman Carson's work on behalf of low-income Oklahomans, his firm was awarded the 1996 Exceptional Contribution to Legal Services by Legal Services of Eastern Oklahoma.

From September 1997 to December 1998, Congressman Carson was a White House Fellow assigned to work at the Pentagon, where he was Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Special Projects. At the Department of Defense, he was involved with some of the most significant issues facing the post-Cold War military, including readiness and gender-integrated training. During the course of his work, he visited American troops and bases across the United States and in the United Kingdom, Germany, Bosnia, Turkey, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain.

Active in the community, Congressman Carson serves on Baylor University's Sesquicentennial Council and the Committee on Liberal Arts. He has been on the Board of Directors of Legal Services of Eastern Oklahoma. Brad has also taught as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Tulsa. He is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, and a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association and Cherokee Bar Association. He and his wife Julie reside in Claremore, OK where they are members of the First Baptist Church of Claremore.