Michael Vanderburg
Mike has served as a city attorney for many communities: Ponca City, Okmulgee, Morris, and Broken Bow, and has also done consulting and contract work for Chandler, Enid, Verdigris, Winchester, McAlester, and several others.
In 2018 he was awarded the Local Government Fellow Award presented by the International Municipal Lawyers Association. That same year he was awarded the Outstanding County Bar Association Award from the Oklahoma Bar Association.
Mike has volunteered in many capacities to include Broken Arrow Community Playhouse, Tulsa Domestic Violence Intervention Service, Magic Empire/Girl Scouts of America, Broken Arrow School Foundation, Okmulgee County Homeless Shelter, Survivor Resource Network of Ponca City, and many others.
He received his law degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law. And he attended the Second Session of the National Law Institute at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.
Mike helped create three instrumental organizations in Oklahoma: the Oklahoma Association of Municipal Attorneys; the Oklahoma Municipal Utility Providers; and the Municipal Attorneys Committee of the Tulsa County Bar Association.
He is a trainer and has conducted multiple trainings to or on behalf of numerous municipal organizations throughout Oklahoma.
Mike is said to be a problem solver by effectively navigating legal issues to successfully defend and protect the communities he serves.