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Garrett Trey King was named a Trustee of America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) in February 2019 and was re-elected in February 2022. He currently serves APTS as Chair of the Legislative Policy & Advocacy Committee.

King previously served three consecutive terms as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA), Oklahoma’s statewide PBS station, as an appointee of Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin. He currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of OETA’s designated charitable auxiliary, Friends Of OETA, Inc.

King currently is employed as Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Chief of Staff to the President at Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU) with locations in Weatherford, Sayre, and Yukon, Oklahoma. He also serves as Executive Director of the SWOSU Foundation, Inc., and its subsidiaries, the SWOSU Alumni Association and the SWOSU Athletic Association.

From 2007 to 2014, King served on the personal staff of U.S. Representative Frank D. Lucas (OK-3) where his work focused on issues related to education, agriculture, Indian affairs, energy, transportation and the environment. King represented Oklahoma on the Young Republican National Committee from 2008 to 2013 and in 2009 was named Oklahoma's Young Republican of the Year.

King has served or is serving on the governing boards of the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA), General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute & Museum, Friends of the Weatherford Public Library, America’s Public Television Stations (APTS), Weatherford Community Habitat for Humanity, Weatherford Food & Resources Center, Wisdom Knot Basketball Camps, HOBY Oklahoma and the local advisory board for Hope is Alive Ministries.

King was raised on a rural electrical cooperative-powered peanut farm and Black Angus beef cow/calf operation in the Oakdale Community near Eakly in northern Caddo County where his family has lived and worked since 1890 and where his early childhood was enriched by the Washita Valley Head Start Program. He is a 2004 graduate of Binger-Oney Public Schools (where his mother, a first-generation college graduate, taught fifth grade for over three decades) and a 2008 alumnus of SWOSU where he studied history and political science as a beneficiary of both the Pell Grant and the Oklahoma’s Promise Scholarship Program.

King holds an M. Ed. in social sciences and is currently a Ph. D. candidate in history at the University of Swansea in Wales. He and his wife, Custer County attorney Carissa (Marquis) King, reside in Weatherford with their daughters, Nellie and Margie.