Cory Alan Pomeroy will join the TXOGA staff as General Counsel on April 1st according to Rob Looney, association president.

"We are very pleased and excited to have Cory joining our team here at TXOGA. His experience and background will serve the Association, its membership and the Texas Oil & Gas Industry well, " said Mr. Looney when making the recent announcement.

Pomeroy joins TXOGA after serving as General Counsel to Texas State Senator Robert Duncan, (R – Lubbock), where he was an important advisor on issues including natural resources; environmental, property, construction, civil liability, criminal, and workers' compensation law and policy; and participated in rulemaking at various state agencies. He has served as Counsel to the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs; as a law clerk at Gardere Wynne Sewell, LLP and Lloyd Gosselink Blevins Rochelle & Townsend, PC, both in Austin; and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. In addition, he served an internship with Federal Judge Marcia Crone in the United States District Court--Eastern District of Texas, in Beaumont. This broad experience included research, providing legal advice and policy analysis, drafting briefs, memoranda, regulatory filings, and providing support in legislative practice. A native of Nederland, Pomeroy was graduated from Texas A & M University magna cum laude in December, 2001 with a Bachelor of Science in Bioenvironmental Sciences. He went on to receive his Juris Doctor from The University of Texas School of Law in May of 2006 and was admitted to the Texas Bar in November, 2006.

He has an extensive knowledge of Spanish, having received a Spanish Certificate reflecting completion of language and culture courses while at A & M and having spent the summer of 2001 studying language and culture courses at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. While at UT he was published in the State Bar Of Texas Environmental Law Journal and was a participant in the Thad T. Hutcheson Moot Court Competition.

Pomeroy is married to Lisa Reinke, a Denton native and nurse practitioner at Dell Children's Medical Center in Austin.

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During the regular session of the 82^nd Legislature, the Texas Oil & Gas Industry faced the most dangerous set of political and economic circumstances in memory.Unique dynamics resulted in a concerted attack on the ability of Texas oil and gas operators to prosper and to continue to anchor the State’s economy.