Douglas L. Foshee

2011 John Rogers Award Recipient
Doulgas L. Foshee

The recipient of the 2011 John Rogers Award
is Douglas L. Foshee, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, El Paso Corporation.

Prior to joining El Paso in 2003, Foshee served as executive vice president and chief operating officer for Halliburton. He joined Halliburton in 2001 as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to that, Foshee was president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board at Nuevo Energy Company. From 1993 to 1997, Foshee served Torch Energy Advisors Inc. in various capacities, including chief operating officer and chief executive officer. He held various positions in finance and new business ventures with ARCO International Oil and Gas Company and spent seven years in commercial banking, primarily as an energy lender.

Foshee earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the Jesse H. Jones School at Rice University in 1992 and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Southwest Texas State University in 1982. He is also a graduate of the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University.

Foshee serves on the boards of Cameron International Corporation, Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation, Central Houston, Inc., and Greater Houston Partnership. He also chairs the board of directors of The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Houston Branch. From January 2009 until February 2010, Foshee was appointed by the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to serve in a leadership role as an independent trustee of the AIG Credit Facility Trust. The Trust was established by the U.S. Treasury to hold the 77.9-percent equity interest in American International Group (AIG).

Foshee is a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, National Petroleum Council, the Council of Overseers for the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University, Rice University’s board of trustees, and KIPP’s board of trustees. He is a recipient of the 2007 Ellis Island Medal of Honor for his commitment to helping children succeed and his leadership role in the business community. In 2008, Foshee was named Distinguished Alumni at Texas State University.

The John Rogers Award was established in 1969 by the Center for American and International Law (formerly the Southwestern Legal Foundation) in honor of John Rogers of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The John Rogers Award is presented annually by the Center’s Institute for Energy Law to a person associated with the petroleum industry in recognition of extraordinary professional and civic achievement.

Mr. Rogers, who died in 1977, was a longtime friend and Trustee of The Center. In 1968 he received the Hatton W. Sumners Award from the Center for his outstanding service to the administration of justice and the preservation of a democratic and constitutional form of government.

Of Mr. Rogers, it was aptly written that "he is an attorney and loves the law, but no profession could hold him captive, and his interests have taken him far afield." He was dean of the College of Law at the University of Tulsa, 1948-1956, and special lecturer, 1943-1962. Mr. Rogers served on the Oklahoma Board of Regents for Higher Education and was president of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. In addition to honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Tulsa, Phillips University and John Brown University, he received the Distinguished Service Citation from the University of Oklahoma.

Mr. Rogers was also a president of the International Convention of Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ) and a member of the General Board of the National Council of Churches. In 1959, he received the National Conference of Christians and Jews Brotherhood Citation.

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