Senator Richard Lerblance
Candidate for Oklahoma State Senate, Senate District 7
Enrolled Member of the Muscogee Creek Nation

Congratulations, Richard!  Senator Richard Lerblance won his reelection bid with 55.02% of the vote.

Senator Richard Lerblance, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, is seeking re-election to the Oklahoma State Senate District 7.  He is a home-grown Oklahoman from Hartshorne, Oklahoma. Since graduating from law school in 1978, Senator Lerblance has practiced law in his hometown. He has also served on the Hartshorne City Council; the Hartshorne Board of Education; and on the Hartshorne Fire Department, from which he retired as Fire Chief.  

Senator Lerblance holds a degree in law from Oklahoma City University School of Law, and is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association, Pittsburg County Bar Association, and Muscogee (Creek) Nation Bar Association. For twelve years he was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. He spent three of those years as Chief Justice. Presently he is a Justice on the Supreme Court of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.

In August 2002, Lerblance was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The following summer, in June 2003, he was elected to the Oklahoma State Senate for District 7, a seat he still holds today.
Richard remains an active cattleman and a member of the Latimer and Pittsburg County Cattlemen Associations, Oklahoma Cattlemen Association, Little Dixie Limousin Association, Maine Anjou Association, and North American Limousin Foundation.  He is very familiar with the needs and concerns of the agricultural and farming community, and an active advocate for those associated with both.

Senator Lerblance is a man of strong family values. These strong family values are shown through his involvement in his church activities and his memberships in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Boy Scouts of America as an Eagle Scout, Hartshorne/Haileyville Lodge 122, 32 Degree Mason – Valley of McAlester, Bedouin Temple – Muskogee, OK, McAlester Rotary Club, and McAlester, Wilburton and Hartshorne Chambers of Commerce.
Richard and his wife, Frances, are members of the Edgewood United Methodist Church in Hartshorne, Oklahoma.

State of the Race:
Senator Richard Lerblance has a general election against Republican Kenny Sherrill, and INDN’s List is proud to support him in his re-election campaign.  Help us keep this seat by supporting Senator Lerblance today!