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A former Bartlesville resident and retired Phillips 66 manager will be inducted into the Oklahoma State University Spears School of Business Hall of Fame.

H.J. Reed is one of three inductees for this year’s Hall of Fame.

Reed worked for Phillips 66 for 44 years with the last 25 years as Manager, Government Affairs. He was responsible for legislative, regulatory and political activities in numerous states across the United States for the company and served as a member of the Bartlesville leadership team.

Until his recent retirement, Reed was a member of the board of directors of Oklahoma 2030, the board of directors of the Environmental Federation of Oklahoma and the board of directors of the Oklahoma Society of Professional Advocates and the executive committee of the Spears School of Business, School of Accounting.

He also has served as Chairman of the Government Affairs committee for both the Oklahoma State Chamber and the Oklahoma Oil & Gas Association, as a Trustee on the Edmond Economic Development Authority and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma State University Alumni Association.

During his time living in Bartlesville, Reed was on the board of directors of the Bartlesville Regional Chamber of Commerce, held multiple offices in the Bartlesville United Way, was past chair of the City of Bartlesville Economic Development and Tourism Commission and active in the Bartlesville Jaycees. He chaired various community and school board and school bond election campaigns.

He most recently was the Executive Chairman of the Edmond Chamber of Commerce. Reed was recognized as the Friend of the School of Accounting from Spears Business in 2022. He is also a member of the Board of Governors for the OSU Foundation, a graduate of Leadership Bartlesville Class I and Leadership Oklahoma Class XII.

Reed and his wife, Gail, a former first-grade teacher in the Bartlesville Public School system, have two daughters – Chelsea, (OSU, B.A. Elementary Education), a first-grade teacher in the Edmond Public School system who is married to Cameron Patton (OSU, B.S. Marketing) employed by CBIZ Stinnett and parents of grandson Cooper, and Melissa, (OSU, B.S. Marketing, M.S. Business Analytics and Data Science), who is a business intelligence analyst for Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores in Oklahoma City.

The Hall of Fame banquet will be held on Nov. 17 at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center in Stillwater.