James Austin Choate was born in 1967 on Offutt Air Force Base, Bellvue, Nebraska. He graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1991, and from the Oklahoma City University School of Law with a doctorate in jurisprudence in 1995.

He is licensed to practice before the Oklahoma state courts, the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Northern and Western Districts of Oklahoma, the United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. He is a member of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, the Luther Bohannon American Inn of Court XXIII, Oklahoma Bar Association, the Oklahoma County Bar Association and the Seminole County Bar Association. Published decisions include Ferrell v. Prairie Intern. Trucks, Inc., 1997 OK 6, 935 P.2d 286, reh. denied, Kirby-Smith Machinery, Inc. v. City of Oklahoma City, 2001 OK CIV APP 25, 19 P.3d 331, cert. denied., and Seminole Family Medicine Clinic v. Southern, 2005 OK CIV APP 46, 116 P.3d 191, cert. denied.

He and his wife, Angela, have three children, Alyssa, Jacob, and Benjamin, and live on a small farm in Seminole.

Mr. Choate's e-mail address is jc@nelsonchoate.com.