Larry Nichols
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J. Larry Nichols is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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 (CEO) of Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy
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 Corporation. Nichols co-founded Devon with his father, John Nichols
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, in 1971 and assumed the company's chairmanship in 2000. He has served as Devon's CEO since 1980 and was President from 1976 until 2003. Additionally, Nichols is a Director of Baker Hughes, Inc. and Sonic Corporation.

A graduate of Oklahoma City
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's Casady School
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 (1960), Nichols holds a B.A. in Geology from Princeton University
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  (1964) and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School
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 (1967). He served as a law clerk to both Associate Justice Tom Clark
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 and Chief Justice Earl Warren
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 of the United States Supreme Court.
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