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Fletcher Dal Handley, Jr. has called El Reno home most of his life. He graduated from El Reno High School in 1966. He spent two years in school at OU as an Air Force Cadet and four years on active duty as an airborne equipment operator in the U.S. Navy. His Navy career as a member of Patrol Squadron 11 took him throughout Europe, the North Atlantic, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.
Upon his discharge in 1972, he returned to OU to complete his undergraduate degree in Professional Writing. In 1974, he married the former Dianne Strasner of El Reno, and after a year working as Assistant News Editor and Staff Writer for the Corsicana Texas Daily Sun, he began Law school.
As fortune would have it, his one and only interview for employment in the legal field came in May of 1978 with the El Reno firm of Fogg, Fogg and Howard. With a legal intern's license in hand he began representing people in central and western Oklahoma as he does to this day. He became partner in the firm, which now includes his name, in 1983, the same year he was selected by the Oklahoma Bar Association as Oklahoma's Outstanding Young Lawyer, an honor previously bestowed on his partner, Richard Fogg, in 1971.
The Handleys were blessed with Ashton in 1976 and Alex in 1981, and nothing has been quite the same since. Ashton is now a naval student at the Defense Language Institute in Monterrey, California, and Alex, a senior at El Reno High School, is preparing for college next year. Dianne has recently returned to employment as a deputy in the Canadian County Assessor's office.
Music and theater are his other passions. He has performed in numerous productions of the El Reno Community Theater and Chorus including a starring role as Oliver Warbucks in "Annie". He frequently sings at churches, music clubs, parties or anywhere else someone will listen, he says.
Handley is also a long time member of the Canadian County Excise and Equalization Boards and continues his military career, currently serving as the Assistant State Judge Advocate with the Oklahoma Army National Guard. He is also beginning his 15th year as coach of the El Reno High School Mock Trial Team, an endeavor for which he was recognized in a 1997 article in the American Bar Association Journal.
First and foremost, however, Handley is a trial Lawyer. He has tried hundreds of cases to judges and juries including military court martials and administrative board proceedings. Handley has served as chair of the Automobile Law Committee of the American Bar Associations' Tort and Insurance Practice Section, and is now a member of the Council and governing body of that section.
He has lectured at numerous programs throughout the country over the past 10 years, mostly on topics dealing with automobile collision law, his primary area of practice. This past October he was a guest speaker at the Hawaii bar Association's annual program on automobile law. He is most proud of his association with Primerus, a national organization committed to the restoration of integrity and respect to the legal profession.
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