Steve Kissee, is dealer principle of Jack Kissee Ford, Claremore, Okla.

Kissee is a native of Claremore. He graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1976, after having been on the dean's honor roll for four years. Upon graduation he joined the family car dealership, was promoted to general manager in 1980, and dealer principle in 1991.

Kissee has had many involvements in the Rogers County community, including membership in the First Baptist Church, the board of directors for the Claremore United Way, board of directors and vice president of the Claremore Chamber of Commerce, board of directors for the Baptist Retirement Center in Owasso, and the Boy Scouts of America. He has served on the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority since 1999.

Kissee has been honored with many professional achievement awards.

Fariss, senior vice president and manager of commercial banking at MidFirst Bank, Tulsa, was appointed to the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority by Tulsa Mayor Bill LaFortune.

Fariss brings more than 30 years of commercial banking and credit experience to the Port. During his extensive banking career, he held officer positions with several banks in the southeast as well as in Oklahoma. Prior to joining MidFirst, he served Bank of America and its Oklahoma predecessors for more than 15 years as a senior commercial banking executive.

Fariss is a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree in marketing and finance.

A long-time leader in the Tulsa community, Fariss is a member of the board of directors for Downtown Tulsa Unlimited and the Tulsa Community College Foundation.

Charles Meckfessel is currently president and director of the American Bank and Trust Co. in Tulsa. Prior to that, he served in a variety of financial positions at the Fourth National Bank and Trust Co., Tulsa, Price Waterhouse Co., Tulsa, and Miner and Adams, CPAs, Great Bend, Kan.

Meckfessel holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Fort Hayes Kansas State University, and has been a certified public accountant in the state of Oklahoma since 1969.

He is an active member of the Oklahoma State Board of Public Accountancy, Oklahoma Society of Certified Public Accountants, Tulsa Chapter Oklahoma Society of CPAs, Financial Executives Institute, National Association of Accountants, Southern Hills Country Club, Summit Club, Petroleum Club, Christ the Redeemer Lutheran Church, Downtown Kiwanis Club, Golf Club of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Bankers Association, Committee of 100 and Committee of 200.

Meckfessel has served on the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority since 1977.

Steven J. Adams was appointed to the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority by the Rogers County Commission. Adams fulfilled the unexpired four-year term of his father, Joseph Q. Adams, who vacated his seat on the board after 26 years of continuous service.

Adams is a partner in Gardere & Wynne, a 300-member law firm with offices in Tulsa, Dallas, Houston and Mexico City. He also serves on their board of directors.

Adams is a former Oklahoma District Judge and has served as District Judge for Rogers, Mayes and Craig counties from 1987 to 1993. He is the former presiding judge for the Northeastern Judicial Administrative District and was honored in 1992 as the outstanding trial judge for the State of Oklahoma.

Adams served on the Board of Governors for the Oklahoma Bar Association and is a former trustee of the Oklahoma Bar Foundation. He is past vice president of the Oklahoma Judicial
Conference, former president of the W. Lee Johnson American Inn of Court and presently serves as a Master of the Bar of the American Inns of Court.

Adams is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Tulsa College of Law where he taught trial evidence and pretrial practice. He graduated from Oklahoma State University and earned his juris doctorate from the University of Tulsa College of Law.

Bob Chitwood, retired President, COO and Director of Cities Service Company, is now President of the R. H. Chitwood Company, which is involved in investments and consulting activities.

During his 31 year career with Cities Service, Chitwood held numerous executive management positions with the Company and its subsidiaries, primarily in the supply and distribution of petroleum and natural gas that utilized transportation by pipeline, barge, ocean tanker and truck.

He serves civic, charitable and educational organizations, including Oklahoma State University, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree, and the Philbrook Museum of Art.

Chitwood has served on the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority since 1992.

A native Tulsan, James G. "Jerry" Goodwin is senior partner of Goodwin & Grant, an advertising, marketing and public relations company headquartered in Tulsa. The company also specializes in diversity communications and marketing.

As a former third generation publisher, he served as Associate Publisher of The Oklahoma Eagle newspaper and is currently a member of its board of directors under Co-Publisher James O. Goodwin, Esq., his father, and Uncle E. L. Goodwin, Jr.

After success in the newspaper business, Goodwin started his own public relations and marketing firm The Goodwin Group, LLC to expand his network on behalf of other corporations and organizations in Tulsa and in the State of Oklahoma. He later merged with Grant Communications to form the present company. Also, he is an adjunct instructor in the Journalism/Mass Communications Department at Tulsa Community College.

In addition to his professional work and other interests, Goodwin is presently volunteer chair of the American Red Cross Corporate Diversity Department and is former chair of its National Diversity Council, both in Washington, D. C. He has also served as chair of the board of directors of the American Red Cross, Tulsa Chapter. Additionally, he serves as chair of the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority. He is a founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists, Tulsa Chapter. His other memberships include the Metropolitan Tulsa Urban League and former board chair of MTUL, Oklahoma State University Foundation, Public Relations Society of America, and the Tulsa Race Riot Memorial Reconciliation Design Committee among others.

Prior to his present position, he served also as a staff assistant to former U. S. Congressman James R. Jones, First District, Oklahoma in 1985. He has also had an opportunity to work for political campaigns of both major political parties.

He graduated from Xavier University (Cincinnati, OH), serving as president of the student body, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a minor in business. His high school education was completed at Cascia Hall Preparatory School. He received special recognition and distinction at both institutions.

"Chip" McElroy is president and ceo of McElroy Manufacturing Inc., a family business he has led since 1988. The company is a private, family-owned and operated business founded in 1954.

The company designs, manufactures and markets polyethylene fusion equipment, fintube machines and electronic components on a worldwide basis. The company presently employs approximately 200 people, mostly in the Tulsa area. McElroy has also established offices in the U.K., Chile, and Kazakhstan. In 2003, McElroy acquired two additional companies - Insight Engineering and Southern Specialties, a division of the Agillis Group, L.L.C.

McElroy graduated com laude from the University of Tulsa with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering. He is active with the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Liberty Mutual Insurance board of directors and the National Society of Porfessional Engineers. He is currently a member and chairman emeritus of the Mechanical Engineering Advisoury Board at the University of Tulsa.

Jack D. Mooney was appointed to the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority by the Rogers County Commission.

Mooney was born in Birmingham, Ala. He graduated from API (Auburn University) with a BS degree in mathematics. He worked in the metallurgical department of U.S. Steel Corp. in Fairfield, Ala., was transferred to Houston as a specification metallurgist and then to Tulsa as a metallurgical engineer.

Mooney moved to Rogers County in 1972. He founded Steel Service Co., a full line steel warehouse, and Steel Service Building Co., which manufactures a full line of metal buildings and components. He is presently CEO of Steel Service Co.

Page has more than twenty years of banking experience. Prior to joining Bank One he managed Liberty Bank’s International Division. Before becoming president of Chase, he held positions of managing director of commercial banking, relationship manager and division manager.

Page received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and an M.B.A. with a concentration in finance from the University of Tulsa. He also holds a graduate degree in banking from the Stonier Graduate School of Banking.

Jon Stuart is currently president of First Stuart Corporation, Granite Sound Corporation, and Granite Broadcasting Corporation.

He is director emeritus of the Thomas Gilcrease Museum Association and the Committee of 100-Tulsa, Inc.

Stuart has served on the Board of Trustees for the Falcom Foundation in Colorado Springs, Holland Hall School, Philbrook Museum of Art (Chairman 1997-98), the Tulsa Foundation, and is the Tulsa chairman of the Edna Gladney Home in Fort Worth.

He has served on the boards of the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority (Chairman 1992-97), Bank One Oklahoma,NA, and the Boston Avenue United Methodist Church.

Stuart, who was born in Oslo, Norway, was presented with the Norwegian Distinguished Service Award by King Harald VII and is the Honorary Consul of Norway for the States of Oklahoma and Arkansas.

Stuart was educated in the Tulsa Public Schools, Culver Military Academy, Oklahoma University and Tulsa University. He is a member of the University of Oklahoma Associates.

Stuart has served on the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority since 1985.