Sylvia M. Burgess
Sylvia M. Burgess
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Admitted:
- Oklahoma, 1982
- U.S. District Court: Western District of Oklahoma
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
- U.S. Tax Court
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Practice:
Estate Planning, Corporate Law, Taxation, Wills & Trusts Law, Probate and Estate Administration
Education:
Cameron University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1979
The University of Oklahoma College of Law J.D., 1982
Southern Methodist University, LL.M. Taxation 1984
Professional Organizations:
- Comanche County Bar Association
- Oklahoma Bar Association
- American Bar Association
Additional Details
Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Delta Phi. Editor, 1981-1982 and Editorial Advisor, 1982, Oklahoma Law Review. Selected publications and presentations: “Special Powers of Appointment: It’s the Courts’ Move,” Vol. 34, No. 4. University of Oklahoma Law Review, Fall, 1981: “Cafeteria Plans and Alternative Methods for Providing Nontaxable Benefits to Employees,” Vol.13, No.’s 6 & 7, Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal, June and July, 1985; “Revocable Living Trusts, Administration and Termination;” Oklahoma Bar Association Continuing Legal Education, Volume 18, Spring 1994; “Who’s the Boss?” Vol. 62, No. 19, Oklahoma Bar Journal, May 11, 1991; Forecasting an Optimal Rate of Tax Under Trump: Will the Laffer Curve Really Laugh? presented at the Society for Business, Industry and Economics, April 2017 (Burgess, Courington); 100 Years of the Federal Income Tax: Barnacles and Crystal Balls, presented at the Society for Business, Industry and Economics, April 2016 (Burgess, Courington); “Amending the Equal Pay Act: Challenges to Prima Faciality,” Oxford Round Table, Oxford, England, March 2005.. Member, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section and Section on Taxation, American Bar Association. Past: Chairman of the Oklahoma Bar Association Section on Taxation, 1991; President, Comanche County Bar Association, 1992; Dean, School of Business, Associate Professor of Tax and Business; and Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs Cameron University, with oversight for Distance Learning, the Library, Educational Outreach, Reach Higher, the Honors Program, and the Presidential Leaders and University Scholars Program, Upward Bound and Open Doors; In 2007, she received the Distinguished Administrator Award, United States Association of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 2007; In 2009 she was named one of “Fifty Making a Difference” by the Oklahoma Journal Record in the Women of the Year Awards. In March 2013, John J. Fernandes Strategic Leadership Award, (John J. Fernandes is the President and Chief Executive Officer of AACSB International; this award was announced by the Academy of Strategic and Entrepreneurial Leadership. In 2017 she was named a Da Vinci Scholar by the Oklahoma DaVinci Institute; Interim CEO and President, Lawton-Fort Sill Chamber of Commerce, 2021.