Owen Lee Anderson was born December 1, 1949, in Northwood, North Dakota. Anderson received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science 1971 and a Juris Doctor degree in 1974 from The University of North Dakota. He then served as Special Assistant Attorney General and later as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of North Dakota. His responsibilities included legal work pertaining to elections, state school land, university lands, and oil and gas conservation. He served as a Professor of Law at the University of North Dakota beginning in 1979. He served as Visiting Chair of Resources Law at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law in 1984. He served as the Jack F. Maddox Professor of Law at Texas Tech University from 1987-1992. He then joined the faculty of The University of Oklahoma College of Law, where he is the Eugene Kuntz Professor in Oil, Gas & Natural Resources. He has also served as visiting faculty at The University of Texas and Southern Methodist University. Anderson has co-authored several books and treatises on oil, gas and water resources. He served as Chair of the North Dakota Judicial Nominating Committee from 1981-1985, which included the time frame during which there was a dispute as to which Governor (the outgoing or incoming) had authority to fill two vacancies on the North Dakota Supreme Court.
From the description of Papers, 1981-1985. (University of North Dakota). WorldCat record id: 48991409
