Attorney Rachel Bussett has announced she will seek office as the Canadian County Associate District Judge, a prepared statement shows.
“I am a fierce advocate for my clients and their families in and out of the courtroom,” her statement reads. “I do not accept ‘no’ for an answer and I’ve yet to meet an adversary in our out of the courtroom that intimidates me. I believe my experience, passion and dedication will help the people of Canadian County move forward and trust in the legal system again.”
Bussett began practicing law in 2003 and has owned her own law firm since 2010. She focuses her practice on representing families and children in family, civil and criminal cases. She practices in state, federal, municipal, administrative, appellate and tribal courts.
She is raising four daughters with her husband Jeremy Simco. Madeline is a freshman at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. Meredith will graduate from Harding Fine Arts High School in May and attend Oklahoma State University. Their youngest two daughters, Harper and Hudson, will begin at Piedmont schools in the fall.
Rachel grew up in Piedmont when her family moved to Oklahoma from St. Louis. Bussett chose to raise her own family in the same community she learned to call home as a child.
She is a graduate of Piedmont High School, Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma City University School of Law. Bussett is a graduate of the prestigious Gerry Spense Trial Lawyer’s College which is an intensive three-week course in trial advocacy in Dubois, Wyoming dedicated to training lawyers and judges who are committed to the jury system and to representing and obtaining justice for individuals; the poor, the injured, the voiceless, the defenseless and the damned and to project the rights of such people from oppression, her statement reads.
Her education and legal practice have taken her all over the United Sates where she has learned with and from some of the leading attorneys in the nation.
During more than 15 years of practice, Bussett has dedicated her life in and out of the courtroom to the safety and benefit of children and their families.
Whether she is volunteering as a legal advocate for special needs children, lobbying in Congress for medical research and funding, mentoring young women to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills, parenting her own children or trying a lawsuit, Bussett puts families first in all that she does.
Her goal is to uphold and apply Oklahoma law which holds: “Courts have a duty to guard with jealous care the interests of minors and to protect infants’ rights,” her statement reads.
Bussett will serve the citizens of Canadian county by being a fair, impartial, and a balanced member of the judiciary whose rulings will be based on the law and the evidence brought before the court, and not on allegiance to a side.
Through the support of the amazing people of Canadian County, her statement states, she believes she will be a catalyst in a community revolution to transform the belief in the legal system, and in particular the juvenile justice system.
