Carson, Brad, 1967-

<p>Democrat Brad Carson, Oklahoma's Second District U.S. representative, was elected to the 107th Congress (2001–03), having won over Republican Andy Ewing in the November 2000 state election. Because it was important to the balance of power between the Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, the election was closely watched around the nation. Carson replaced Republican Tom Coburn, who retired.</p>

<p>Carson, born in Winslow, Arizona, on March 11, 1967, received a bachelor's degree from Baylor University. In 1988 he achieved a life-long dream when he was named a Rhodes scholar. At age seven he had written an essay about his desire to become a "R-O-A-D-S" scholar. After receiving a J.D. degree from the University of Oklahoma, he had a private law firm, which received an award in 1996 for its service to low-income Oklahomans. In 1997 he worked as special assistant to Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen. During the late 1990s Carson taught at the University of Tulsa's Law School.</p>

<p>Brad Carson's top political issues included health care, nursing home reform, education, and campaign finance reform. During his tenure in Congress he requested a U.S. House Committee investigation of Oklahoma's nursing home industry. At the turn of the twenty-first century he served on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Brad Carson represented Oklahoma until the end of his term in 2004.</p>

CARSON, Brad, a Representative from Oklahoma; born in Winslow, Navajo County, Ariz., March 11, 1967; B.A., Baylor University, Waco, Tex.; Rhodes Scholar, M.A., Oxford University, Oxford, England; J.D., University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla, 1994.; lawyer, private practice; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Seventh and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 2001-January 3, 2005); not a candidate for reelection in 2004, but was an unsuccessful candidate to the United States Senate in 2004.

<p>Having built a distinguished career in public service, law and education, TU President-elect Brad Carson has been a professor at the University of Virginia since 2018, teaching courses related to national security and public sector innovation and served as a senior advisor at Boston Consulting Group. In 2015, President Barack Obama appointed Carson acting under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness at the U.S. Department of Defense. He oversaw the human resources, military readiness, education, training and health care of the nearly 5 million servicemembers, civilian employees and their dependents within the Department of Defense and managed an internal organization of 30,000 employees.</p>

<p>Prior to that, Carson served as the under secretary of the U.S. Army, where he managed the daily operations of the largest military service, and as general counsel of the U.S. Army, where he oversaw the service’s worldwide legal operations. A Rhodes Scholar, he is widely published and is a noted authority on national security, energy policy and American politics. From 2001 to 2005, Carson served two terms as a U.S. congressman, representing the 2nd District of Oklahoma. Later, he was appointed to the faculty of the business school and law school at The University of Tulsa, where he taught academic courses on energy policy, property law, negotiation and game theory, globalization and law and literature. In 2008, he deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom as an intelligence officer and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service.</p>

<p>Carson brings to TU a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion having spent most of his career working, directly or indirectly, in this area, an interest that arises naturally from his childhood growing up on Indian reservations around the country and, later, representing the congressional district that is home to the Cherokee Nation. Carson also served as president and chief executive officer of Cherokee Nation Businesses, where he refocused the organization’s corporate strategy and governance and significantly increased revenues.</p>

<p>Brad Rogers Carson (born March 11, 1967) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Oklahoma who served as the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness from 2015–16. In that role, he initiated a number of notable reforms to include opening up all combat positions to women, open service by transgender service members, and new recruiting and retention practices.</p>

<p>A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2005. He served as Under Secretary of the Army from 2014 to 2015 and as General Counsel of the Army from 2012 to 2014.</p>

<p>Carson is currently a senior advisor at the Boston Consulting Group. Carson has also been a Professor of Public Policy for the last two years at the University of Virginia's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He is the only person to have voted on the authorization of the Iraq War in Congress and to have subsequently fought in it. On April 5, 2021, the University of Tulsa announced Carson had been selected to be the 21st president of the university.</p>