Attorney General Drummond’s law experience spans nearly 30 years and includes having served as an assistant district attorney in Pawnee and Osage Counties and as an attorney in private practice. In 1999, he founded a Tulsa-based firm, Drummond Law. In addition to his legal career, Drummond, a seventh-generation Oklahoman, has been a longtime rancher, banker and businessman.

He served as a U.S. Air Force jet pilot during the Persian Gulf War and led the first combat mission of that conflict. Drummond was among the most decorated Oklahomans to serve in that conflict, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross for “extraordinary achievement” as well as three Air Medals and four Aerial Achievement medals.

Sworn in as Attorney General on Jan. 9, 2023, after winning election as a political outsider, Drummond has focused on fighting crime, ensuring transparency and openness in government, improving tribal relations, and putting an end to a culture of corruption and scandal. 

Soon after assuming office, Drummond assembled the first-ever Organized Crime Task Force to clamp down on the state’s epidemic of illegal marijuana operations and associated criminal activities, such as human trafficking and opioid distribution. When Drummond took office, there were more than 9,000 licensed marijuana grows. Now, due to the task force and strategic partnerships with state and federal officials, there are fewer than 2,100 – with that number still decreasing. Because Oklahoma’s proliferation of illegal marijuana farms was largely fueled by the nation’s illegal immigration crisis, Drummond worked with state lawmakers to craft a new law enabling law enforcement to incarcerate illegal immigrants. Drummond led a vigorous defense of the law in federal courts to ensure its enforcement. 

Under Drummond’s leadership, the Attorney General’s Office has secured legislation strengthening prosecutions of rape, child pornography and fentanyl distribution. He has also taken several steps to enforce the Open Records and Open Meetings Acts to increase openness and transparency in the state, including the addition of a public access counselor, who has resolved hundreds of complaints to ensure strict compliance with state laws.

Drummond has been a steadfast opponent of federal overreach that routinely threatened state sovereignty under the Biden Administration. He led efforts to keep Oklahoma’s energy industry from being decimated by that administration’s zeal for overregulation. Similarly, his office pushed back when the previous administration radically redefined Title IX’s long-held protections for students to include gender identity, helping to ensure that females have a safe space in bathrooms, locker rooms and on sports fields. 

Drummond earned his bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University and his law degree from Georgetown University. He and wife Wendy married in 2010 and have a blended family of six children and seven grandchildren.