About Glenn Coffee

Glenn Coffee is a businessman, attorney and family man who was the first Republican in Oklahoma history to serve as President Pro Tempore, the top leadership position in the Oklahoma State Senate. Coffee was also the longest-serving Republican leader in the Senate. Coffee was selected by Governor Mary Fallin to run her transition office and appointed as Oklahoma Secretary of State by Governor Mary Fallin in January 2011 and served until January 2013.

In 2008, Republicans made history by winning their first-ever majority in the Oklahoma Legislature’s upper chamber. As the leader of the new majority, Coffee was elected to a two-year term as President Pro Tempore (2009-2010).

First elected to the State Senate in 1998, Coffee quickly gained a reputation as a leader and a reformer. He has served in a variety of leadership posts in the State Senate, including Minority Floor Leader (2004-2006), and as Senate Co-President Pro Tempore (2007-2008) after Republicans won a historic tie in the Oklahoma State Senate in the 2006 elections, sharing the responsibility of running the State Senate with his Democrat counterpart.

Coffee earned an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Northeastern State University in 1989 and was named Outstanding Senior. He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1992.

Throughout his 12 years in the Legislature, Coffee was honored by numerous organizations for his dedication to education, as well as for his efforts to improve public safety and for his legislation aimed at better protecting Oklahoma’s children. The Higher Education Alumni Association honored Coffee with its Lifetime Achievement Award for his support of higher education, and Northeastern State University awarded Coffee the 2003 Citation of Merit, Young Alumnus Award. The Institute for Child Advocacy named Coffee to its Child Advocates Hall of Fame. Coffee received appreciation awards from the District Attorneys Council, the Oklahoma Sheriffs Association, and the State Troopers Association for his support of law enforcement and public safety issues.

Coffee was selected as the 2009 Legislator of the Year by the Oklahoma Rifle Association and the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association. In 2010, Coffee received the State Chamber of Oklahoma’s Spirit of Leadership Award for creating the first Republican majority in Oklahoma’s Senate history as well as becoming the first Republican President Pro Tempore. Coffee received the American Legislative Exchange Council’s 2010 National Legislator of the Year Award.

In 2013, Coffee started Glenn Coffee & Associates, a law firm focusing on government ethics, campaign finance and government boards and commissions work. Coffee serves as general counsel for TVC Pro-Driver, a family business providing road and motor club services and other services. Coffee and his wife Lisa live in Oklahoma City and have four children, sons Collin and Blaine, daughters Anna and Kate, and two grandchildren, Owen and Caroline.