Kenneth Wagner

Kenneth E. Wagner serves as Oklahoma’s Secretary of Energy and Environment, a post to which he was appointed in 2019 by Gov. J. Kevin Stitt. In that role, Wagner is responsible for more than 30 state agencies, boards, compacts, and commissions. Wagner previously served as the Senior Adviser to the Administrator for Regional and State Affairs within USEPA’s Office of the Administrator, where he also served as Director of the Office of Regional Operations. As part of his duties at EPA, he served as the Administrator Scott Pruitt’s designee to all 10 regions before regional administrators were appointed, and he continued to coordinate all 10 U.S. EPA Regional Administrators and served as an advocate for the regions at headquarters with all the assistant administrators for each national program and the Administrator’s office. Before joining the EPA, Wagner worked as a private-sector lawyer and held private business interests for nearly 25 years. He was a founding member and managing partner of a mid-sized law firm in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he practiced and managed a diverse practice that included commercial, energy and environmental matters. In addition to running a law firm, Wagner was involved in numerous business and commercial ventures, including being a minority partner in Oklahoma’s Triple-A baseball team based in Oklahoma City from 2003 to 2010. He earned degrees from the University of Oklahoma and the University of Tulsa College of Law.