Jess Kane is a 5th generation rancher, having grown up on his family’s diversified cow/calf, stocker and grain farming operation headquartered in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of the South (Sewanee, TN), a Certificate of Ranch Management from the Texas Christian University Ranch Management Program, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma, College of Law.
Jess has practiced law with the firm Robinett, King, Elias, Buhlinger, Brown & Kane with offices in Bartlesville and Pawhuska since 2009, and was named a partner in that firm in 2015.
In addition to his legal practice, Jess is a partner with his brother, Richard, in Cloverleaf Cattle Co., LLC, a stocker enterprise with operations on owned and leased land in Washington and Rogers Counties in Oklahoma and Kiowa County, Kansas. Additionally, Jess and his wife Ashley are partners in a cow herd located in Tillman County, Oklahoma.
Jess has served as Director and now Vice-President of the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association representing the Northeast District. He recently began serving as a member of the Oklahoma Beef Council. Jess and Ashley have two children, Sammy (5) and Bobby (2).