Andy Coats Explained

Order:32nd
Office:Mayor of Oklahoma City
Term Start:April 13, 1983
Term End:April 14, 1987
Predecessor:Patience Latting
Successor:Ron Norick
Birth Date:19 January 1935[1]
Birth Place:Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Profession:Attorney
Alma Mater:University of Oklahoma
Party:Democratic

Andrew Montgomery Coats (born January 19, 1935) is an American lawyer and politician.[2] He attended the University of Oklahoma. A Democrat, he served as mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from 1983 to 1987. In 1984, Coats successfully argued the case NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma before the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) television plan violated the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts.[3] From 1996 to 2010, he was the Dean of the University of Oklahoma College of Law. He is also a former president of the American College of Trial Lawyers. From 1976 to 1980, he was Oklahoma County District Attorney. In 1980, he unsuccessfully ran in the United States Senate election to replace Henry Bellmon. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2005.[4] [5] His son, Sanford Coats served as United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma from 2009 to 2016. As of 2024, he is the last member of the Democratic Party to be mayor of Oklahoma City.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Andy Coats. City of Oklahoma City. July 18, 2018.
  2. Book: Who's Who in the South and Southwest. 1999. Marquis Who's Who. 9780837908298. en.
  3. News: Meet the man who thinks he 'screwed up' college football with a Supreme Court win. NBC News. August 26, 2023. August 27, 2023.
  4. Web site: Coats, Dean Andrew M.. OU College of Law. 2016-06-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20160612133601/http://www.law.ou.edu/content/coats-dean-andrew-m. 2016-06-12. dead.
  5. News: Andrew M. Coats: Trial Lawyer, Public Servant, Dean. Buratti. Barbara. 2010-12-01. Distinctly Oklahoma.