Clifford Ludlow, son of Randal and Minnie Ludlow, was raised in the Ludlow Community. He now lives in Homer with his wife, Kathy. Together, the couple have five children.
Ludlow is a proud, full-blood Choctaw and fluent Choctaw speaker. He didn’t speak English until he started school at age six.
Ludlow went on to attend welding school and became a certified welder. He has had three jobs in his lifetime: a heavy equipment operator and a custom trailer builder in Paris, Texas, and is currently a language teacher with Choctaw Nation. He has been with the nation for almost 29 years and has no plans of retiring any time soon.
In 1995, Ludlow began working alongside other first-language speakers from Oklahoma and Mississippi to translate the Choctaw Parallel Bible, with the first edition printed in 2009. He has also worked on translating Choctaw hymns, which were added to the Choctaw Hymn Book.
He is currently the superintendent and Sunday school teacher at his church and has served for over 20 years as president of the Fifth Sunday Choctaw Singing.
Ludlow has devoted his life to preserving the Choctaw Language. Ludlow is a language teacher in his community and at Carl Albert State College. Ludlow and fellow language teacher Raymond Johnson created a Christmas play that was performed entirely in Choctaw.