Meet the Team

Judge Kenneth M. Stoner

District Judge Oklahoma County, Office 4, Seventh Judicial District, State of Oklahoma

Prior to being appointed by the Governor to the position of District Judge, Judge Stoner spent seven years practicing criminal defense law, primarily focusing his practice on representing people with addiction and mental health issues. He began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in Oklahoma County. Judge Stoner plans on spending the remainder of his career working on issues surrounding addiction and its intersection with the criminal justice system. Judge Stoner is a sixth-generation Oklahoman and a member of the Cherokee Nation. He has been married for 26 years and has three teenage sons who are not too impressed with any of his accomplishments. He enjoys a variety of physical activities such as biking, longboarding, camping, hiking, diving, gardening and adventure travel.

Kelly Basey

Assistant District Attorney

Kelly Basey was born and raised in Oklahoma City. She graduated from OSU with a degree in journalism and Spanish. She then moved to Madrid, Spain to teach international business English for two years. Upon return, she attended and graduated law school with honors from the University of Oklahoma. She immediately began her service at the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s office. In 1998 she married and they had two children. While at the District Attorney’s office she initiated the start of the Mental Health Court which at the time was the 6th such court in the nation. From 2002 to 2006 she led the drug court into a new era of expansion while guiding the principles and policies of law enforcement. In 2006 she retired from the District Attorney’s office and joined the premier immigration firm in Oklahoma which later became Winningham, Stein and Basey. She was appointed as the attorney for the Mexican Consulate. She was honored to be allowed to be a Catholic jail minister in Oklahoma County jail from 2015 to 2019. In 2019 she returned to the Oklahoma 4

District Attorney’s office to re-join the expanded diversion programs at Oklahoma County. She enjoys volunteering in the community, traveling and spending time with her husband, children and extended family.

Madison Mélon

Assistant Public Defender

Madison is a lawyer with the Oklahoma County Public Defender’s Office. She started work there in 2015 after graduating from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. She has been involved with diversion programs her entire legal career. She began in Mental Health Court and requested to be assigned to Drug Court in January 2016. She now supervises all diversion programs for the Public Defender’s Office. She loves watching the progress the participants make while in the program – meeting people in custody and then seeing them build a life in recovery is the best job perk there could be. She believes that Treatment Court is the answer to criminal justice reform.

She is married to a fellow public defender. They have a daughter who was born the week everything shut down for COVID. She enjoys reading, doing Barre3, and spending time with her family.

Christina Bolton

Care Coordinator

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David Gilbert

Program Coordinator

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