Andy Rieger Top 10 Seminal events in Normans ....

The top 10 seminal events in Norman's growth and development

Andy Rieger is a Norman native whose great grandfather helped build the railroad through Oklahoma and then participated in the land run in 1889. He is a graduate of Norman High, and earned a bachelors degree in journalism and a masters of public administration from the University of Oklahoma. He is a part-time, adjunct instructor in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

He worked in journalism in Oklahoma or journalism education in central Oklahoma for more than 40 years and retired as executive editor of The Norman Transcript in 2015. Besides teaching part-time and continuing to write a Sunday newspaper column in The Transcript, he works as a Realtor and helps with his family's investments.

He and his wife, Karen, have three children and two grandsons.