James J. (Jim) Mulva

2008 John Rogers Award Recipient
James J. Mulva

The recipient of the 2008 John Rogers Award was James J. Mulva, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, ConocoPhillips. The award
was presented at a special ceremony at the Petroleum Club of Houston on Thursday, February 21, 2008, during the 59th Annual Oil and Gas Law Conference.

Mulva served as president and chief executive officer of ConocoPhillips from 2002 to 2004. Prior to that, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of Phillips Petroleum Company from 1999 to 2002. He had served as Phillips’ president and chief operating officer since May 1994 and executive vice president since January 1994. He had been senior vice president in 1993 and chief financial officer since 1990, at which time he joined the company's management committee.

Mulva currently serves as a member of The Business Council, as
well as the Board of Visitors for the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
in Houston. He also served as the 2006 chairman of the American Petroleum Institute.

Born in 1946, Mulva is from Green Bay, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1968 with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in business administration finance in 1969. Immediately after graduating, Mulva served as a U.S. Navy officer until beginning his career with Phillips in 1973.

Click here to read Mr. Mulva's final remarks at the John Rogers Award Reception and Dinner.

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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