Jon H. Trudgeon, Partner

Phone: (405) 235.7000
Fax: (405) 996.3403
E-Mail: jtrudgeon@hartzoglaw.com

Practice Areas
  • Wealth Transfer Planning, Trusts, and Estates
  • Employee Benefits and Retirement Planning
  • Non-Profit Organizations
Professional Biography
  • Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (Oklahoma state chair)
  • Past President of the Oklahoma City Estate Planning Council
  • Admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court, United States District Court, Western District of Oklahoma, 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, and U.S. Claims Court
  • Recognized in Best Lawyers in America in the areas of:
    Employee Benefits Law 
    Trusts and Estates 
  • Captain, United States Air Force, JAGC, 1964 to 1968
  • Listed one of Oklahoma Super Lawyers (Estate Planning & Probate)
  • He has been a speaker at numerous seminars sponsored by the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma Society of Certified Public Accountants, Oklahoma Bar Association, Southwest Pension Conference, and the National Business Institute on Employee Benefits (ERISA), Estate Planning, Tax Planning for Professional Corporation, Non-Profit Organizations
  • He has also written articles in Taxes Magazine, Labor Law Review, and the Oklahoma Bar Association Journal
Bar Memberships
  • American Bar Association
  • Oklahoma Bar Association
  • Oklahoma County Bar Association
  • Served as Director, Treasurer, and Vice President of the Oklahoma County Bar Association
  • Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (Past State Chair)
  • Member of the ABA Sections on Taxation and Real Property, Trusts and Probate
  • Served as a member of the Board of Governors Oklahoma Bar Association
  • Past President of the Oklahoma Bar Foundation
  • Director, Oklahoma County Bar Foundation
Education
  • University of Oklahoma (B.B.A., Finance/Investments, 1961)
  • University of Oklahoma, College of Law (J.D., 1964)
Civic
  • President of the Heritage Hall Affiliated Fund of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation
  • Past President of the Board of Oklahoma Center for Non-Profits, Board Member Emeritus
  • Board member for Potts Family Foundation

Family

  • Wife – Sandra Trudgeon, community volunteer and retired school administrator
  • Children – Ann Trudgeon, Susan Kelly Issacson and Jon C.T. Trudgeon