Current source roster
Broken Arrow Ward 4 council seat
Ward 4 councilor
June 2023–present; term expires 2027
No exact dates beyond the source period, compensation or institutional control inferred.
People / Government & civic life
Justin Green
Ward 4 councilor, Broken Arrow
A sheriff’s corporal whose public roles connect municipal land-use decisions, school policing, disability sports and national municipal advocacy.
Justin Green represents Ward 4 on the City of Broken Arrow council, with a term expiring in 2027. He entered through appointment in June 2023 and continued unopposed in 2025. Alongside his work as a Tulsa County sheriff’s corporal, he serves on Special Olympics Oklahoma’s board and is a 2026 vice chair of a National League of Cities federal advocacy committee.
Finance, education and law enforcement
The Broken Arrow Sentinel’s June 2023 appointment report describes Green as having grown up in Cushing, earned an Oklahoma State University business degree with a finance emphasis, and worked for Bank of Oklahoma, Bank of the West and WorldCom. It gives no employment dates. His city biography corroborates university graduation and a finance background. The sheriff’s January 2018 newsletter identifies him as a deputy and public information officer. The current city biography describes him as a corporal supervising school resource officers. These sources establish different career stages without supplying a complete employment chronology.
Career & public service
- 2017
Special Olympics recognition
Named Tim Stafford Unsung Hero by the Oklahoma program.
- January 2018
Sheriff’s public information work
Department newsletter identifies Green as deputy and public information officer.
- June 19, 2023
Council appointment
Appointed and sworn into the Ward 4 vacancy.
- 2024 campaign
Listed Senate endorser
Gillespie’s campaign lists Green as an endorser.
- 2025
Unopposed continuation
Returned to the seat; April minutes record his oath.
- 2025–2026 school year
Youth Council sponsorship
Named with Parks as an adult program sponsor.
- 2026
National committee leadership
NLC lists him as a community and economic development vice chair.
- January–September 2026
Land-use denial and lawsuit
Moved for denial in January; sued in August; sought dismissal in September.
People, institutions and the relationships between them
Following the connections
Each step below represents a documented relationship. Dates and roles belong to the individual links; a path can span different periods.
personJustin Green
appointment eventJustin Green council appointment, June 2023
governmentCity of Broken Arrow
A dated appointment event is separate from continuing council service.
personJustin Green
committeeNLC Community and Economic Development Committee
organizationNational League of Cities
A 2026 advocacy role, not authority over federal grants.
personJustin Green
programOklahoma Law Enforcement Torch Run
nonprofitSpecial Olympics Oklahoma
City-reported board service; exact term unverified. The program raises support for the nonprofit.
Documented relationships
15 documented relationships · Historical and current roles remain distinct.
Historical record
Justin Green council appointment, June 2023
Appointed to vacancy
June 19, 2023
No exact dates beyond the source period, compensation or institutional control inferred.
Historical record
Justin Green council appointment, June 2023
City council appointment · City of Broken Arrow
June 19, 2023
No exact dates beyond the source period, compensation or institutional control inferred.
Current source roster
Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office
Corporal; supervises school resource officers
Current city biography; start unverified
Current official biography supports role; separate personnel and payroll records not reviewed.
Historical record
Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office
Public information officer
January 2018
No exact dates beyond the source period, compensation or institutional control inferred.
Historical record
Oklahoma State University
University graduate
Completed before June 2023
No exact dates beyond the source period, compensation or institutional control inferred.
Current source roster
Special Olympics Oklahoma
General board director
Current roster checked October 2026
No exact dates beyond the source period, compensation or institutional control inferred.
Historical record
Oklahoma Law Enforcement Torch Run
Torch Run board service
Undated city biography
Attributed city biography; current program board roster and term not verified.
Current source roster
Oklahoma Law Enforcement Torch Run
Fundraising and public awareness · Special Olympics Oklahoma
Current program description
No exact dates beyond the source period, compensation or institutional control inferred.
Historical record
Tulsa County Sheriff’s Deputy FOP Lodge 188
Deputy lodge board service
Undated city biography
No exact dates beyond the source period, compensation or institutional control inferred.
Historical record
BattleCreek Church
Worship, security and ministry volunteer
Undated city biography
No exact dates beyond the source period, compensation or institutional control inferred.
Current source roster
NLC Community and Economic Development Committee
Committee vice chair
2026
No exact dates beyond the source period, compensation or institutional control inferred.
Current source roster
NLC Community and Economic Development Committee
Federal advocacy committee · National League of Cities
2026
No exact dates beyond the source period, compensation or institutional control inferred.
Historical record
Broken Arrow Youth City Council
Council program sponsor
2025–2026 school year
No exact dates beyond the source period, compensation or institutional control inferred.
Historical record
Christi Gillespie
Listed campaign endorser
2024 Senate campaign
Campaign-published claim; no contribution, paid campaign work or reciprocal support inferred.
Dated public records
Compensation & campaign finance
Council salary rate
$9,000 annually
Effective April 2025
USD annual rate for a non-mayor council position; not actual earnings, benefits, county payroll or campaign receipts.
His motion to deny the mosque applications
The January 12, 2026 minutes record Green moving to deny the Islamic Society of Tulsa’s rezoning and conditional-use applications, with Ford seconding. Pickel, Green, Ford and Wimpee voted for denial; Parks opposed. Green said the decision should turn on land-use and infrastructure facts rather than religion, and rejected accusations of discrimination. The applicant argued that later engineering and permitting would address development requirements. The denial is a recorded council action; the competing explanations are attributed positions in a disputed hearing.
Allegations, defense and the limits of the docket
The Society’s August 3, 2026 complaint names the city and four councilors, including Green in his individual capacity, alleging religious discrimination and violations of constitutional and statutory protections. The individual defendants’ September 18 dismissal motion argues legislative and quasi-judicial immunity and incorporates parts of the city’s defense. These are allegations and legal arguments, not findings. The accessible docket checked during this research was last retrieved September 22; it records an October 30 response deadline and no merits disposition within that snapshot. Later docket completeness remains unverified.
An appointment with competing views on the process
The city records Green’s appointment and oath on June 19, 2023 after Joe Franco resigned. Nine residents sought the vacancy. The Sentinel reported that Lisa Ford nominated Green and Debra Wimpee seconded; Johnnie Parks abstained because he preferred a special election. The same report says Christi Gillespie nominated another candidate whose motion received no second. These are documented differences over selection, not evidence of a permanent council faction.
The question of holding two public roles
At the appointment interview, Gillespie asked about possible conflicts between county employment and city council business. According to the Sentinel, Green said he had consulted county and city officials and received advice that municipal service was permitted. That is his reported account of advice, not a reviewed written opinion or a blanket finding about future votes. Individual matters involving the county still need to be assessed on their own facts.
Unopposed continuation and council compensation
The February 2025 filing report identified Green, David Pickel, Ford and Wimpee as unopposed incumbents. April 15 council minutes record the returning members taking their oaths and all five voting to retain Wimpee as mayor. Green’s current listed term ends in 2027. Since April 2025, the published salary rate for a non-mayor council position is $9,000 annually. That rate is distinct from actual payroll, sheriff’s compensation, campaign receipts and outside income.
A sustained connection to disability sports
Special Olympics Oklahoma’s current roster includes Green on its general board, separately from executive officers and paid staff. The organization provides sports training and competition for people with intellectual disabilities. Its award history names Deputy Justin Green of the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office as the 2017 Tim Stafford Unsung Hero recipient. The Torch Run program raises funds and public awareness for Special Olympics; it is a program relationship, not another public police command. Green’s city biography also reports Torch Run board service, although an independently dated current board term was not established. This connection predates his council appointment.
A national advocacy role in 2026
The National League of Cities names Green a 2026 vice chair of its Community and Economic Development Committee. The committee develops municipal policy positions and advocates on housing, land use, economic development, parks, preservation and related federal grant programs. It brings local officials into a national policy forum. Vice-chair service provides an advocacy platform; it does not give Green authority to award federal grants or bind Congress. This dated roster is more current than the city biography’s reference to a 2024 committee role.
Police association, church and youth civic work
The city biography reports board service with the sheriff’s deputy FOP Lodge 188 and volunteer work at BattleCreek Church in worship, security coordination and ministry. Those are attributed affiliations; neither establishes an organizational endorsement of his council decisions. A city agenda’s background identifies Green and Parks as the Youth City Council sponsors for the 2025–2026 school year. That adult sponsorship connects him to civic education, while the identities and private lives of participating minors are outside this profile.
A documented campaign connection
Christi Gillespie’s Senate campaign website, carrying its 2024 campaign footer, lists Green among its endorsers. The campaign also lists Ford, Wimpee and Parks. This supports a carefully attributed political connection to a former council colleague. It supplies no amount donated, paid campaign position or agreement to coordinate official decisions.
Interpretation
How the connections fit together
Green’s documented positions span county employment, city governance, charitable sports and municipal advocacy. The school-resource role and long-running Special Olympics work help explain the public-service background he brought to office. The NLC role adds a national forum for local policy concerns. None of these affiliations, by itself, shows that an employer, church, charity or professional association controls his vote. The mosque decision illustrates why a profile must examine specific actions as well as institutional connections.
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Sources & corrections
Research checked 2026-10-19. Roles and financial figures retain their source dates. Sections appear only when supported material is available; an omitted section is not a finding that no such relationship exists.
- City of Broken Arrow Council Handbook2023 ↗
primary · Source date 2023-06-27 · Checked 2026-10-13
City-published orientation, updated June2023; page8 statutory council-manager form, mayor presides and votes, manager daily operations; pages9–10 collective agenda actions. Historical handbook, not proof of unchanged2026policies.
- Broken Arrow City Council minutes, April 15, 2025 ↗
primary · Source date 2025-04-15 · Checked 2026-10-13
Page 1, item 6, reelection of Debra Wimpee as mayor; five ayes. Original PDF archived and hashed.
- January 12, 2026 council minutes reproduced in City agenda packet ↗
primary · Source date 2026-01-12 · Checked 2026-10-13
PDF pages 16–26; minutes page 11/PDF page 26, item 26-151, motion to deny BAZ-002469-2025 and SP-002526-2025; Wimpee listed among four ayes.
- Broken Arrow — current council and compensation ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-15
Members and Wards: Ford Ward 2, term expires 2029; citywide voting; salary rate effective April 2025, USD/year. Undated current page; not actual payroll.
- Islamic Society of Tulsa — original complaint, Document 2 ↗
court-filing · Source date 2026-08-03 · Checked 2026-10-15
Case4:26-cv-00469; filed August3,2026; pp1–4 parties, capacities and claims. Allegations, not findings. Original court-stamped copy mirrored by public-records website.
- Individual defendants — motion to dismiss, Document 26 ↗
court-filing · Source date 2026-09-18 · Checked 2026-10-15
Filed September18,2026; pp1–3,12: individual capacities, immunity arguments and requested dismissal; not a ruling. Reused preserved original.
- Justia — case docket snapshot ↗
court-docket-index · Source date 2026-09-22 · Checked 2026-10-15
Snapshot last retrieved September22,2026; entries26–30; October30 response deadline. Checked October15; later docket completeness unverified.
- City of Broken Arrow — Justin Green ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-19
Official biography: OSU, corporal and school resource supervision, FOP 188, Torch Run and church service. The committee reference is explicitly 2024; see NLC for 2026 role.
- City of Broken Arrow — Green fills Ward 4 seat ↗
primary · Source date 2023-06-20 · Checked 2026-10-19
June 19 appointment and oath after Joe Franco resignation; nine applicants. Closing sentence has a term-date wording error; current roster establishes 2027 expiration.
- Broken Arrow Sentinel — Justin Green appointed ↗
independent-reporting · Source date 2023-06-20 · Checked 2026-10-19
John Dobberstein; background, appointment nominations, Parks abstention, and Green’s account of legal advice. Reported career details; no personnel records or written legal opinion supplied.
- Broken Arrow Sentinel — incumbents unopposed ↗
independent-reporting · Source date 2025-02-05 · Checked 2026-10-19
February filing report: Green unopposed; term expires 2027. Article’s 2003 appointment date is a typo contradicted by contemporaneous 2023 sources; not adopted.
- National League of Cities — Community and Economic Development ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-19
2026 Leadership: Justin Green, vice chair, Broken Arrow; committee remit and federal grant advocacy.
- Special Olympics Oklahoma — board and organization ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-19
General board includes Justin Green; executive board and professional staff separately listed; incorporation and accreditation history.
- Special Olympics Oklahoma — Tim Stafford award ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-19
2017 recipient Deputy Justin Green, Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office; purpose of award.
- Special Olympics Oklahoma — Law Enforcement Torch Run ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-19
Oklahoma fundraising and awareness program, established 1986; connection to Special Olympics Oklahoma. Organizational fundraising totals are not personal donations.
- Tulsa County Sheriff — January 2018 Shield ↗
primary · Source date 2018-01 · Checked 2026-10-19
January 2018 issue; Justin Green signs as deputy and public information officer. Historical role.
- Broken Arrow — Youth City Council sponsors, 2025–2026 ↗
primary · Source date 2025-10-07 · Checked 2026-10-19
File 25-1394, October 7 agenda background names Johnnie Parks and Justin Green as school-year program sponsors. Appointment action not inferred from agenda status.
- Christi Gillespie for State Senate — endorsements ↗
campaign-statement · Checked 2026-10-19
Campaign site lists Justin Green, Ward 4, under endorsements; footer identifies State Senate 2024 campaign. Campaign-reported endorsement; no donation or campaign employment inferred.