Oklahoma Pardon & Parole
Oklahoma Pardon & Parole
Board Members
Board Members
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Board members may be contacted via email at Boardmembers@ppb.ok.gov or by leaving a voice mail message at 405-522-9227.
Tom Bates - Executive Director
Tom Bates - Executive Director
Tom Bates has served as the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board since September 2020, following a unanimous board vote for his appointment. In this capacity, he oversees the board's operations, ensuring the effective processing of pardon and parole applications.
Honorable Richard A. Miller
Honorable Richard A. Miller
2025 Acting Chairman, Judge Miller was appointed to the Pardon and Parole Board by the Presiding Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals on January 4, 2023, and his first term will expire in January 2027. He was a former prosecutor in District 20.
Before his appointment he served:
Associate District Judge for Marshall County in the 20th Judicial District for 26 years.
On the Emergency Division of the Court of Criminal Appeals
Oklahoma Criminal Justice System Task Force.
Eleven years as a prosecutor in the 20th Judicial District
Years as an Active Retired Judge, by appointment of the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
Since 2018, Miller has served as Municipal Judge for the cities of Tishomingo and Madill in Johnston County.
Board of Directors of Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers for the past 17 years and served as the board's president.
1978 graduate of the Oklahoma University City School of Law, where he was a member of the O.C.U. Law Review.
National Judicial College
Former Municipal Judge for Madill and Tishomingo.
Filed for election to State Representative
Pardon and Parole Board appointee
Mr. Sean Malloy
Mr. Sean Malloy
Mr. Malloy was appointed to the Pardon and Parole Board by Governor J. Kevin Stitt on Decemember 17, 2024, and his term will expire January 2027.
Ms. Susan Stava
Ms. Susan Stava
Ms. Stava was appointed to the Pardon and Parole Board by Governor J. Kevin Stitt on December 5, 2024, and her term will expire January 2027.
Mr. Robert Reavis II
Mr. Robert Reavis II
Mr. Reavis was appointed to the Pardon and Parole Board by the Supreme Court of Oklahoma on August 17, 2023, and his term will expire in January 2027.
Since 2018, Robert Reavis has been an Appeals Officer and Trial Magistrate serving five distinct Tribes, including the Seneca-Cayuga Nation, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Modoc Nation, Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma, and Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma, at the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Miami Agency in Miami, Oklahoma.
Additionally, Mr. Reavis works for the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Albuquerque/Santa Fe Court of Indian Offenses in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the Ute Mountain Ute Court of Indian Offenses in Towaco, Colorado, where he served as an Acting Trial Magistrate for the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.
From 1994 to 2018, he held the position of Associate District Judge in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, overseeing a wide range of legal matters. Prior to that, he served as an Assistant District Attorney in the 13th Judicial District of Oklahoma from 1992 to 1994. During this time, he was Director of the Drug Task Force for the 13th Judicial District and Head of the Child Support Enforcement Unit.
Mr. Reavis was in private practice in Miami, Oklahoma, from 1991 to 1992, focusing on general practice with an emphasis on criminal defense cases.
Mr. Kevin Buchanan
Mr. Kevin Buchanan
Mr. Buchanan was appointed to the Pardon and Parole Board by Governor J. Kevin Stitt on August 3, 2023, and his term will expire January 2027.
Kevin was born and raised in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where he graduated from C.E. Donart High (Stillwater) in 1977. He attended Oklahoma State University from 1977-1981 where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration.
Buchanan attended the University of Tulsa, College of Law from 1981-1984 and graduated with a Juris Doctorate degree. Buchanan began working for the law firm of Garrison, Brown & Carlson in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, in 1982 while attending law school. Following graduation, he joined the firm and later became a partner in the firm of Garrison, Brown, Carlson & Buchanan. Kevin spent 26 years in private practice focusing primarily on criminal defense law, family law, and general civil litigation. During the years 1997-1998, Kevin was a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association Indigent Defense Committee. In 2010, he was elected to the position of District Attorney for District 11 which encompasses Washington and Nowata counties where he served three terms and retired January 1, 2023. During his term in office, Kevin served as President of the Oklahoma District Attorneys Council from 2017-2018. Kevin is married to his wife of 24 years, Mary Beth. He has two daughters, Brittany Di Via and husband, Claudio, of Barcelona, Spain, and Kelsey Straub and husband, Ted, of Dallas, and one granddaughter, Sofia Di Via.
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