James L. Gallogly (born September 1, 1952 in

St. John's, Newfoundland St. John's is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. The city spans and is the easternmost city in North America ...

, Canada) is a former American university administrator and retired business executive who was the 14th President of the

University of Oklahoma The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a Public university, public research university in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two Territories became the state of Oklahom ...

. He has held executive positions with ConocoPhillips, ChevronPhillips and Phillips Petroleum, and is a former Chief Executive Officer of

LyondellBasell LyondellBasell Industries N.V. is a multinational chemical company incorporated in the Netherlands with U.S. operations headquartered in Houston, Texas, and offices in London, UK. The company is the largest licensor of polyethylene and polypro ...

. Gallogly joined the

DuPont DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours. The company played a major role in ...

board of directors in February 2015. He became the 14th president of the University of Oklahoma, on July 1, 2018 serving for ten months before he retired May 12, 2019.

Early life and education

James L. Gallogly was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, one of ten children of Tom and Margery Gallogly. He attended high school at Wasson High School in Colorado Springs. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the

University of Colorado Colorado Springs The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is a public research university in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is one of four campuses that make up the University of Colorado system. As of Fall 2017, UCCS had over 12,400 undergraduate an ...

in 1974 and a Juris Doctor from the

University of Oklahoma College of Law The University of Oklahoma College of Law is the professional graduate law school of the University of Oklahoma. It is located on the University's campus in Norman, Oklahoma. The College of Law was founded in 1909 by a resolution of the OU Boar ...

in 1977. He completed the Advanced Executive Program at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

in 1998.

Career

Gallogly joined the

Phillips Petroleum Company Phillips Petroleum Company was an American oil company incorporated in 1917 that expanded into petroleum refining, marketing and transportation, natural gas gathering and the chemicals sectors. It was Phillips Petroleum that first found oil in the ...

in 1980. He worked in a variety of legal, financial and operational positions including international assignments in Norway. He was appointed vice president of plastics (1996), vice president of olefins and polyolefins (1998) and later senior vice president of chemicals and plastics (1999). Gallogly has held executive positions with ConocoPhillips, ChevronPhillips and Phillips Petroleum. Phillips Petroleum Corp. and Chevron Corp. combined to form

Chevron Phillips Chemical Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, LLC is a petrochemical company jointly owned by Chevron Corporation and Phillips 66. The company was formed July 1, 2000 by merging the chemicals operations of both Chevron Corporation and Phillips Petroleum ...

as a

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in June 2000. Gallogly became the inaugural president and chief executive officer of Chevron Phillips Chemical, one of the world's top producers of

olefins In organic chemistry, an alkene is a hydrocarbon containing a carbon–carbon double bond. Alkene is often used as synonym of olefin, that is, any hydrocarbon containing one or more double bonds.H. Stephen Stoker (2015): General, Organic, an ...

and

polyolefins A polyolefin is a type of polymer with the general formula (CH2CHR)n where R is an alkyl group. They are usually derived from a small set of simple olefins (alkenes). Dominant in a commercial sense are polyethylene and polypropylene. More speciali ...

, remaining there until 2006. In 2002, Conoco Inc. and Phillips Petroleum merged to form

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, based in

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.Christopher J. Castaneda,
"Phillips Petroleum Company." ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''.
Accessed 04 February 2013. In 2006, Gallogly joined ConocoPhillips as executive vice president of refining, marketing and transportation and later as executive vice president of exploration and production. Gallogly became the chief executive officer of LyondellBasell in

in 2009, succeeding Volker Trautz as part of a reorganization following U.S. bankruptcy court proceedings. Gallogly guided the company out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and successfully repositioned it as one of the world's largest refining companies and makers of

polymers A polymer (; Greek '' poly-'', "many" + ''-mer'', "part") is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules called macromolecules, composed of many repeating subunits. Due to their broad spectrum of properties, both synthetic an ...

and

petrochemicals Petrochemicals (sometimes abbreviated as petchems) are the chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining. Some chemical compounds made from petroleum are also obtained from other fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas, or renewable sou ...

. Gallogly formally retired as CEO of LyondellBasell in January 2015. As of February 5, 2015, he was appointed as a director of DuPont Gallogly formerly served on the Board of Directors for Continental Resources.http://nocache-phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=197380&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2340405 He also served on the University Cancer Foundation Board of Visitors at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. On March 26, 2018, the Board of Regents of the

formally announced that Gallogly would be serving in the capacity of OU's presidency following the retirement of

David L. Boren David Lyle Boren (born April 21, 1941) is a retired American lawyer and politician from the state of Oklahoma. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as 21st governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979 and three terms in the United States Senat ...

. The selection process in which he was chosen as Boren's successor came under fire for its secrecy. After less than a year—a brief 10 months—as president, Gallogly announced his retirement on May 12, 2019.

Awards

Petrochemical Heritage Award The Petrochemical Heritage Award was established in 1997, "to recognize individuals who made outstanding contributions to the petrochemical industry, petrochemical community." The award is intended to inspire achievement and to promote public und ...

(2015) * ICIS Kavaler Award (2014) * Honorary Doctorate of Science, University of Colorado Colorado Springs (2012) * Communication Leadership Award (2011) from the Houston chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators

Philanthropy

On behalf of the Gallogly Family Foundation, James and Janet Gallogly pledged to donate $1M to the University of Colorado, supporting creation of the Gallogly Events Center. The center is named in honor of father Tommy M. Gallogly, a non-traditional adult student who earned bachelor's (1970) and master's degrees (1973) in education at UCCS. Formally dedicated in 2010, the building has been awarded

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a green building certification program used worldwide. Developed by the non-profit U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), it includes a set of rating systems for the design, construction ...

(LEED) Gold certification.

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Voices of Oklahoma interview.
First person interview conducted on July 12, 2018, with James L. Gallogly. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gallogly, James L. 1952 births Living people American business executives Directors of DuPont Presidents of the University of Oklahoma People from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador American academic administrators