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Over a career that spans nearly 50 years, Tulsa, Oklahoma attorney Richard E. Comfort has been a public school teacher, a judge, a businessman, a pilot and a professional musician.

Born in 1937 in El Paso, Texas, Richard E. Comfort attended the University of Arkansas and Arkansas A & M College (now the University of Arkansas at Monticello), completing requirements for a B.S.E degree in 1960. He attended law school at University of Arkansas (Little Rock Division) and University of Tulsa, graduating in the top 10 percent of the class from the latter with a Juris Doctor degree in April of 1970.

Mr. Comfort received a number of awards while he was in law school, including: Corpus Juris Secundum Award, Contracts (1967), American Jurisprudence Award, Legislation (1970) and American Jurisprudence Award, Jurisprudence (1970).

In 1974, he graduated from the National College of State Judiciary in Reno, Nevada, 1974 and from the National College of State Judiciary Graduate New Trends Program in 1977.

He completed mediation training with Michael S. Gillie, Founder, Executive Director and Chief Mediator of United States Arbitration and Mediation, Inc. in Seattle, Washington in 1988.

In 1990, Mr. Comfort trained as Adjunct Settlement Judge with Tulsa County Adjunct Settlement Judge Program, a joint project of the Tulsa County District Court and the City of Tulsa Municipal Court, May 1990 and served as an adjunct settlement judge for two years. He participated in advanced mediation training at the Attorney-Mediators Institute in Houston, Texas in 1995 and at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California in 1999.

Richard E. Comfort is a private pilot with instrument rating.