Denelda Richardson earned her bachelor's degree from Southern Nazarene University in 1996 and her law degree from University of Tulsa College of Law in 2003, with Highest Honors, Order of the Curule Chair. She worked for the Hon. Sven Holmes, then Judge in the Northern District of Oklahoma, for 10 years. First as his paralegal, and then upon the completion of law school as a term clerk. She is also the mother of a son who is now 33 who has been deaf since birth. As a result, she understands the struggles in special education from both a personal and legal standpoint. She has been in private practice with the law firm of Rhodes, Hieronymus, Jones, Tucker and Gable since 2004.
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