Storyteller: Wilson, Mickey D.

Interviewer: Bertalot, Lorretta

Date: 05/03/2019

Language: English

Initiative: Tulsans Talk

Description: Judge Mickey D Wilson discusses his life being brought up and returning to Tulsa after years in the military. He graduated from Tulsa Central High School where he was on the tennis team, traveled to Alaska, returned to graduate from the University of Tulsa where he was also on the tennis team. After graduation, he went to OU Law school and later joined the US Air Force as a Lieutenant. After three years in the Air Force, mostly in Crete, he returned to Tulsa and started his law practice. He became very knowledgeable in bankruptcy law and became a Federal Judge before retiring.

Subjects: Morningside Hospital, Lanier and Elliott Elementary Schools, Horace Mann, Jr. High, Central High School, Brookside, Brookside Baptist Mission and Church, Tracy Park, tennis, Coach Rex Berry, Drew Berry, Alaska Highway, Sacramento, University of Tulsa, Sigma Chi Alpha fraternity, OU Law School, E. Central (mental) Hospital, J. Howard Edmondson, Lockland Airforce Base, USAF Security Service, Kelly Air Force Base, Crete, Cold War, Senator Sam Ervin, Boy Scouts, Choctaw ancestry.