Abner Vandiver

I grew up watching my parents carry a line of credit through two bad harvest years. No one ever explained their options to them.

My family ran a feed store south of Tulsa. When the wheat came in short, the store carried the farmers, and the bank carried us. I remember the kitchen-table nights better than the good years.

After law school I took a job at a firm that collected consumer debts for lenders. It paid the loans, and it taught me the other side’s playbook: how accounts are bought and sold, which paperwork is missing more often than not, and how few people ever answer a lawsuit.

I opened this office to put that knowledge to work for the people I used to send letters to. I keep the caseload small enough that I know each file without opening it, and I return calls the day they come in.

Outside the office I coach a youth soccer team in Kendall-Whittier and read more Oklahoma history than anyone has asked me to.