SARAH LEE GOSSETT PARRISH
Who We Are
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Sarah Lee Gossett Parrish
Founder & President
Sarah Lee Gossett Parrish is a third-generation attorney.
She maintains a civil litigation practice and is admitted to practice in Oklahoma and in Texas. She is
admitted to practice before the Western, Northern and Eastern United States District Courts in Oklahoma; the
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. She is a member of
the Oklahoma County Bar Association, Oklahoma and Texas Bar Associations, the American Bar Association, the
Federal Bar Association and Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity.
Ms. Parrish received her B.A. in Letters from the University of Oklahoma, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude,
in December 1982. She was a Rhodes Scholarship Nominee Gulf Region Finalist in 1982-1983, and was awarded
the Silver Letzeiser Medal for Outstanding Senior, University of Oklahoma, 1983. She also served as Chairman
of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women for the State of Oklahoma from 1982-1983 and was
instrumental in starting the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame.
Ms. Parrish received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1986. She
subsequently served as a law clerk for the Hon. Lee R. West, U.S. District Court for the W.D. of Oklahoma;
the Hon. William J. Holloway, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and as a staff lawyer for
Vice Chief Justice James R. Winchester of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Active in community and professional
associations, Ms. Parrish served as President of the Oklahoma City Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, President of
the Oklahoma City Pi Beta Phi Alumna Club and is a Sustaining Member of the Oklahoma City Junior League. Her
legal thriller, Guilt of Innocence, placed second in the New York Law Journal's national fiction writing
contest in December 2006. The Prologue and Chapter 1 may be found on the New York Law Journal's website at
http://www.nylawyer.com/.
She is a fine art photographer and has recently exhibited at Art San Diego 2016 and SPECTRUM Miami during
Art Basel Miami. She is represented by JRB Art at the Elms Gallery in Oklahoma City and Art4U Gallery in
Parkville, just outside Kansas City. Please check out her fine art photography web site at
www.slgparrish.com, which showcases her recent work, including her Flower Series, and her Instagram feed,
@slgparrish, for more of her work. All images on this website were photographed by her.
Sarah Lee Gossett Parrish has represented her clients in many state and federal courts at both the trial and
appellate levels, which cases are simply too numerous to set out here. Several of her more notable cases
resulting in published opinions include the following: Bituminous Cas. Corp. v. Pollard, 508 Fed. Appx. 780
(10th Cir. 2013); Yousuf v. Cohlmia, 741 F.3d 31 (10th Cir. 2014); BITCO Gen. Ins. Corp. v. Marjo Operating
Co., Inc., CIV-14-1220-D, 2016 WL 6699426 (W.D. Okla. Nov. 8, 2016).
Sarah Lee has been named one of the National Law Journal's 2019 Cannabis Trailblazers AND one of the
American Lawyer Magazine's 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 Women Leaders in the Law!