University of Oklahoma College of Law Professor Monika Ehrman was elected to the Board of Directors of Matador Resources Company. She was first appointed to the board in September 2019 and serves on the Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance, Operations and Engineering, and Prospect Committees.
Ehrman is professor of law and faculty director of the Oil and Gas, Natural Resources and Energy Center at the OU College of Law, where she leads the oil and gas and natural resources law program. She is also the faculty adviser to the Oil and Gas, Natural Resources and Energy Journal, published by OU Law. Her scholarly interests rest within the area of oil and gas real property issues, the intersection between law and petroleum technology, and energy policy. Her courses include Oil and Gas Law, International Petroleum Transactions, Energy Negotiations, Property, and Oil and Gas Contracts. She teaches in the J.D. and graduate programs at the OU College of Law and in the Executive Energy Management Program at the OU Price College of Business.
Before joining the College of Law, Ehrman served as general counsel of a privately held oil and gas company in Dallas, senior counsel with Pioneer Natural Resources and associate attorney at Locke Lord LLP. Her practice experience includes oil and gas litigation and energy transactional work. Before law school, Ehrman worked as a petroleum engineer in the upstream, midstream and pipeline sectors of the energy industry. In addition to her experience with the technical aspects of the industry, she worked as an analyst in the areas of commodity risk management and energy trading. She is currently vice president of education for the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators and on the Executive Committee for the Journal of World Energy Law and Business, published by Oxford University Press. She received her bachelor of science degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Alberta; juris doctorate from SMU Dedman School of Law; and master of laws degree from Yale Law School.
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