User:Ken.doke/sandbox

Ken Doke was born in Muskogee (1975). Doke was elected as the Muskogee County Commissioner for District 1 in 2014. He is most known for his response to severe flooding in Muskogee County in 2019. Using mostly social media, Commissioner Doke's minute-to-minute communication with the public is believed to have saved many lives. During the historic flooding, there were several evacuations and emergency operations; including blackhawk helicopter evacuations from Camp Gruber in Braggs. One particular operation involved a county-led operation to build an "impossible road" over a seven-mile mountain trek to reach trapped flood victims in Braggs, OK. That successful operation garnered national news. Ken Doke received a citation from the State of Oklahoma in 2019 for his role in the emergency response, and in 2021, he was named Public Official of the Year by the Oklahoma Flood Plain Managers Association (OFMA) for his efforts in obtaining a supplemental congressional appropriation of over $36 million for the State of Oklahoma for disaster recovery.