Oklahoma's 

Brady Disclosure

Project

District 20 

Click below for Defendant data in Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall, & Murray Counties!  

If you have a public complaint you would like submit please follow the link below.


Melissa Handke

Appointed by Gov. Stitt on August 4, 2023

Prosecutor Misconduct No. 1668106742 - 673804919

Current Administration:

Jacobi Whatley

1st Assistant District 20 Attorney - Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Resource Prosecutor

Former Assistant District 4 Attorney - Canadian County until January 2023

Buck Samson

Assistant District 20 Attorney - Love County

Formerly a Democrat member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives representing District 49 from 2008 to 2010. He was defeated in the 2010 general election.

Jessica Dice

Assistant District 20 Attorney - Marshall County

Brooklin Hobbs

Juvenile Assistant 

S. Douglas Elliott

Assistant District 20 Attorney 

Scott Sampson

Assistant District 20 Attorney 

James English

Assistant District 20 Attorney - Murray County

Prosecutor Misconduct No. 1668106951 - 242188147

S. Douglas Elliott

Assistant District 20 Attorney 

Alexis Benitez

Hired for Assistant District 20 Attorney position, but did not pass his July 2023 sitting for the Oklahoma Bar exam, renewed his Legal Assistant License in September of 2023. 


Resigned or terminated after failing the bar exam a 2nd time.

Former Legal Assistant District 21 District Attorney's Office.

District 20 is NOT in Compliance

District Attorney, Craig Ladd, is NOT in compliance with:

We emailed the request on Sept. 26th 2022