Burlington Resources Adds Reuben Anderson and William Wade to Board of Directors.Business/Energy Editors HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 2001 Burlington Resources Burlington Resources, is an American oil and gas company. Their headquarters are in Houston, Texas. Based in Houston, Texas, BR has major offices located in Calgary, London, Farmington, Midland and Fort Worth. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BR) today announced the election of Reuben V. Anderson and William E. Wade Jr. to its board of directors, expanding the board in size from nine to 11 members. Anderson is a partner in the law firm of Phelps Dunbar in Jackson, Miss., and Wade is former president of Atlantic Richfield (ARCO). "We are pleased to welcome two such highly qualified individuals to our board," said Bobby S. Shackouls, Burlington Resources chairman, president and chief executive officer. "They bring to us a broad combination of industry and general management expertise, and we look forward to benefiting from their guidance in the future." Anderson serves on the boards of directors of BellSouth, The Kroger Company, Trustmark National Bank and Mississippi Chemical Corporation; is a board member or trustee for a number of associations and charitable and civic organizations; and chairs the Mississippi Economic Council (State Chamber of Commerce). He formerly held the Jamie Whitten Chair of Law and Government at the University of Mississippi The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. Founded in 1848, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford and three branch campuses located in Booneville, Tupelo, and Southaven. , and was a Mississippi Supreme Court Justice; a circuit, county and municipal court judge; a partner in the law firm Anderson, Banks, Nichols & Stewart; and an associate counsel for NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund In 1940 the organization formerly known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and now called the NAACP launched the Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). Since its founding, the organization has been involved in more cases before the U.S. , Inc. Anderson earned a juris doctor The degree awarded to an individual upon the successful completion of law school. Juris doctor, or doctor of Jurisprudence, commonly abbreviated J.D., is the degree commonly conferred by law schools. degree from the University of Mississippi and a bachelor's degree from Tougaloo College Tougaloo College is a private, co-educational, liberal arts institution of higher education founded in 1869, in Madison County, on the northern edge of Jackson, Mississippi, USA. Dr. Beverly Wade Hogan, the thirteenth and first female president, began her tenure in 2002. . Wade previously served on the boards of ARCO, Vastar Resources, Inc., Lyondell Petrochemical and a number of trade associations and non-profit organizations. He spent 31 years with ARCO, ultimately as president, after serving as executive vice president of Exploration and Production, president of ARCO Oil & Gas (the company's lower 48 exploration and production operations), president of ARCO Alaska, vice president of Corporate Planning, and in a variety of other executive assignments. Before joining ARCO he worked as a research engineer for DuPont. Wade earned a master's degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, , and a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. . Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Burlington Resources is one of the world's largest independent oil and gas companies, with natural gas comprising approximately 80 percent of its reserves. The company has properties in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, South America, Africa and China. Additional information is available on the Burlington Resources Web site, located at www.br-inc.com. |
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