In this position, Ms Lawhorn will report to Curtis Dinan, senior vice president, CFO and treasurer for Oneok and Oneok Partners, who previously held the position of chief accounting officer for the partnership.

Stephen Allen has been promoted to vice president and associate general counsel, responsible for Oneok Partners’s commercial legal matters. Joseph McCormick has been promoted to vice president and associate general counsel, responsible for Oneok distribution companies’ legal matters. Both will report to John Barker, senior vice president and general counsel for Oneok and executive vice president and general counsel for Oneok Partners.

Ms Lawhorn joined Oneok in 1998 as manager of auditing and was later promoted to senior vice president of financial services and treasurer. She assumed her current position in January 2007.

Mr Allen joined Oneok in January 2006 as associate general counsel – commercial, responsible for the legal aspects of commercial transactions, contracts and acquisitions. Mr McCormick joined Oneok in 2003 in his current position as managing attorney with Oklahoma Natural Gas, one of Oneok’s three natural gas distribution companies.