Brigham Minerals, Inc. has appointed a new independent director, Carrie Clark, to the Company's board of directors, effective immediately. Ms. Clark will serve on the Audit Committee, and her appointment increases the size of the board of directors to nine members.
About Clark
Ms. Clark has served as Senior Vice President, Land and General Counsel of University Lands since 2015, developing and implementing legal and land management strategy for over 2.1 million acres of fee lands in Texas which generate oil and gas royalty and surface revenue for the benefit of the University of Texas and Texas A&M University Systems. From 2014 to 2015, Ms. Clark served as Deputy General Counsel of Talos Energy Inc., an offshore energy company focused on oil and gas exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico and offshore Mexico. From 2011 to 2015, Ms. Clark served as Vice President, Land and Legal for EnerVest Operating, LLC, where she led a large, diverse team of land and legal professionals in supporting the ownership, operation, and management of EnerVest's oil and gas assets in North America. From 2008 to 2011, Ms. Clark served as Assistant General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for a wholesale generation and transmission electric cooperative structured as a 501(c)(3) which provided power supply planning and approximately $1 billion in annual electricity sales to rural Texans across much of the state. From 1998 to 2008, Ms. Clark served as landman and attorney at Shell Oil Company in New Orleans and Houston.
Ms. Clark earned a bachelor's degree in business administration with a double major in finance and petroleum land management from Texas Tech University, and she received her law degree from the University of Houston. She is a past recipient of the Houston Business Journal's Best Corporate Counsel Award for Best Solo General Counsel.
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