Andy Coats
32nd Mayor of Oklahoma City
In office
April 13, 1983 – April 14, 1987
Preceded byPatience Latting
Succeeded byRon Norick
Personal details
Born (1935-01-19) January 19, 1935 (age 89)[1]
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materUniversity of Oklahoma
ProfessionAttorney

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. He is the most recent mayor of Oklahoma City to be a Democrat.

References

  1. ^ "Andy Coats". City of Oklahoma City. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  2. ^ Who's Who in the South and Southwest. Marquis Who's Who. 1999. ISBN 9780837908298.
  3. ^ "Meet the man who thinks he 'screwed up' college football with a Supreme Court win". NBC News. August 26, 2023. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
  4. ^ "Coats, Dean Andrew M." OU College of Law. Archived from the original on 2016-06-12. Retrieved 2016-06-19.
  5. ^ Buratti, Barbara (2010-12-01). "Andrew M. Coats: Trial Lawyer, Public Servant, Dean". Distinctly Oklahoma.
Party political offices Preceded byEd Edmondson Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from Oklahoma(Class 3) 1980 Succeeded byJames R. Jones
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