Glenn Coffee

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Glenn Coffee
Oklahoma State Senator
In office 1998 – Present
Constituency	30th Senate District

Born	1967
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Lisa
Children	Collin, Blaine, Anna, Kate
Residence	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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Virgil Glenn Coffee (Glenn Coffee) (born 1967) is an American lawyer and Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Coffee is currently the first Co-President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate and will be the 41st President Pro Tempore and the first Republican to hold that office from July 1, 2007 through July 31, 2007.

1 Biography
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Coffee was raised in Texas and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where he attended Putnam City Public Schools. After graduating from high school, Coffee moved to Tahlequah, Oklahoma where he attended Northeastern State University (NSU). He graduated from NSU with a Bachelor of Arts then attended the University of Oklahoma College of Law and earned a Juris Doctor.

Coffee was first elected to the Oklahoma Senate in 1998 and was re-elected to his final term in that body without opposition in 2006. In December 2006, Coffee was selected by his party to serve as the first Co-President Pro Tempore of the Senate and 41st President Pro Tempore. He was formally elected on the Constitutionally mandated organizational day on January 2, 2007. Due to term limits placed on him by the Oklahoma Constitution, Coffee will be unable to seek re-election in 2010.

Coffee is also an attorney with the Oklahoma law firm Phillips, McFall, McCaffrey, McVay, & Murrah, P.C., where he works in Commercial Transactions, Corporate And Partnership Formation and High Technology, E-Commerce and the Internet.

[edit] See also

State Senator Mike Morgan (the Democratic President Pro Tempore)
Oklahoma State Senate
Oklahoma Republican Party
Politics of Oklahoma

[edit] References

Senator Glenn Coffee - District 30 (biography). Oklahoma State Senate.

[edit] External links

Homepage of the Oklahoma State Senate

51st Oklahoma legislative session (2007–2009)

Oklahoma House of Representatives	Oklahoma Senate
Speaker – Lance Cargill Speaker pro Tempore - Gus Blackwell Majority Floor Leader – Greg Piatt Minority Floor Leader – Danny Morgan Republicans (Majority): 57 Democrats (Minority): 44	President of the Senate – Lt. Governor Jari Askins President Pro Tempore – Mike Morgan Co-President Pro Tempore – Glenn Coffee Republican Co-Floor Leader - Owen Laughlin Democrat Co-Floor Leader - Charlie Laster Republicans:24 Democrats: 24