AICCO State Board Officers

Bailey Walker (2022-2024)

President

Bailey Walker, a Chickasaw Citizen, President/CEO of Four Winds Strategy Group LLC and Director of Tribal Relations for Tribal Diagnostics LLC was elected unanimously as the 2019 AICCO President at the December State Board of Directors meeting.

Bailey is active in the American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma, first serving as an Advisory Board Member, State Board Member, Vice President, and State President for most of 2018. He has assisted in the creation of the SW Chapter, SE Chapter, & Eastern Chapter. In 2016, Bailey accepted an opportunity to help build a pilot program Leadership Native Oklahoma to assist future leaders.

Catherine J Graddy (2022-2024)

Vice President

Catherine J Graddy is an attorney at Joyce & Graddy, PLLC, an American Indian-owned law firm and Cherokee TERO, Chickasaw and Choctaw preferred vendor in Tulsa, OK. She is a Cherokee citizen and a member of the First Families of the Cherokee Nation.

Graddy graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1998 with a BA in Psychology, graduated from Pepperdine University in 2000 with a Masters in Clinical Psychology, and graduated from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 2004 with a JD. She has been licensed to practice in Oklahoma since 2005 and a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association and the Tulsa County Bar Association. Catherine just graduated from the AICCOk Leadership Native Oklahoma Class of 2018!

Kendra Bennett (2022-2024)

State Board Secretary

Kendra Bennett is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She was raised in Muldrow and now resides in Edmond, Oklahoma.

While in college she developed skill sets that are valuable to the land industry as well as customer service. She is the Leasing Manager for Reagan Smith, Inc. She is actively involved with oil and gas leasing, transactions and regulatory with the Western Tribes and the Five Civilized Tribes. As a Native American herself and a patriot in the oil and gas industry, she loves to be a liaison between both worlds.

Bennett holds a degree from Oklahoma State University in Agricultural Leadership and a Master of Science in Energy Legal Studies from Oklahoma City University. She has been accepted into AICCO’s Leadership Native Oklahoma and is looking forward to being a 2022 graduate.

The FFA motto was heavily engrained in Bennett, especially “Living to Serve.” She is excited to server her tribal community previously as AICCO’s OKC Chapter Secretary (2022), and now as AICCO’s State Board Secretary (2022-2024).

Russell Tucker (2021-2023)

Board Member/Treasurer

Russell currently works for MEMCO Safety and M & M Poultry as a sales representative for southwest Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma.

He supplies materials and services to manufacturers, construction companies, large building projects, police departments, first responders, transportation departments, food processors, poultry, pork and beef processing facilities, cities, counties, and tribal entities. Memco and M&M products and services help their valued customers to operate safer, more efficiently and more economically.

Russell is a proud member of the Choctaw Nation and a retired firefighter. He loves to hunt, fish, and travel. He and his wife Karen live in Poteau, Oklahoma.