Inona Jane (Summers) Harness is from Lamont, Oklahoma where she was raised by her loving Christian parents on a wheat farm.  She and her attorney husband Gordon Harness live in Newcastle and have raised and shown cutting horses and quarter horses.  Their son graduated Yale University with a degree in Biomedical Engineering and works in Oklahoma to further science and technology. They are members of Freewill Baptist Church.  Prior to being a lawyer, Inona worked in several hospitals ranging from 15 beds to university-operated and in a reference laboratory where she was the Vice President of Marketing. Inona joined Pierce Couch in 1982.

Legal Assistant:

Carla Zellner, czellner@piercecouch.com

Education:

• University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Oklahoma, 1981 - J.D.
  Honors: Phi Delta Phi
  Honors: American Jurisprudence Award, Property I and Property II

• Wichita State University - M.B.A. Studies

• Oklahoma State University, 1969 - B.S
  Major: Biology

• Oklahoma State University, 1970 - B.S.
  Major: Medical Technology

Bar Admissions:

• Oklahoma

• Chickasaw

• U.S. District of Oklahoma (Western, Eastern, Northern districts)

Professional Associations and Memberships:

• Oklahoma County Bar Association

• Oklahoma Bar Association

• International Association of Defense Counsel (emeritus)

Professional Honors/Awards

• Founding member of HOPE organ transplant support organization