Choctaw Nation District 5 councilman Ron Perry resigns; special election to be held July 12

Ron Perry, who represented District 5 of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) on the Tribal Council resigned his office April 1. The resignation took effect immediately.Perry, who was first elected in 2011, was serving as secretary of the Tribal Council.Because there was more than one year remaining in Perry’s term, the CNO Consti-tution calls for a special election to be held t...