Bio Details

Professor Ehrman was appointed to the Board in 2019 and is co-chair of the Board’s Sustainability and Development Committee. She is a Professor of Law at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law and a Professor of Engineering (by courtesy), at the Southern Methodist University Lyle School of Engineering. Prior to joining SMU, in 2023, she was an Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law and a tenured Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she led the Oil & Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy (ONE) Program and served as the Faculty Director of the ONE Center. While at the University of Oklahoma, she taught in the J.D. and graduate programs at the College of Law and in the Executive Energy Management Program at the University of Oklahoma’s Price College of Business. Professor Ehrman joined the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 2013 as Associate Professor of Law.

Prior to teaching, she served as in-house legal counsel for two oil and natural gas companies from 2008 to 2012 and as an associate oil and natural gas attorney at an international law firm from 2005 to 2008.

Before law school, Professor Ehrman worked as a petroleum engineer in the upstream, midstream and pipeline sectors of the energy industry. In addition to serving on various oil and natural gas law committees, she also served as an Editor of the Oil and Gas Reporter for the Institute for Energy Law.

Professor Ehrman is currently Immediate Past Chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Natural Resources and Energy, a Trustee of The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law, and she is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of World Energy Law & Business (published by Oxford University Press). Professor Ehrman received her Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Alberta; Juris Doctor from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law; and Master of Laws degree from Yale Law School.

Professor Ehrman provides valuable insight to our Board on our engineering and midstream operations as well as legal and governance matters.