Brian Sullivan
Brian Sullivan is a Licensed Professional Engineer in Texas in petroleum and natural gas engineering and is board certified in oil, gas and mineral law by the
Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Brian is currently a grader for the Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Certification Examination. Starting in the spring of 2019, Brian joined the faculty of the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin where he teaches Oil and Gas Law to upper-division engineering students.
In 1982, Brian and Mike McElroy founded a law firm now named McElroy, Sullivan, Miller & Weber, LLP. Brian is partner emeritus and continues to assist
the firm. Prior to founding the firm, Brian was a legal and technical examiner (now administrative law judge) in the Oil and Gas Division of the Railroad Commission of Texas. Prior to leaving the Railroad Commission, Brian was appointed staff counsel to Commissioner Buddy Temple. Brian was previously employed as a production engineer at Amoco Production Company and a consulting engineer with Max F. Powell, PE.
Brian has served as chairman of the Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Council of the State Bar of Texas; chairman of the UT PGE Visiting Committee; and a member of the Regulatory Affairs Committee of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. He has also served as a trustee at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin and Schreiner University in Kerrville, and as an elder at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Austin.
Brian has been recognized by Texas Lawyer as one of five “Go To” lawyers for energy law and has been a Texas Monthly “Super Lawyer” every year since 2007. He graduated with honors in petroleum engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1976 and subsequently graduated from The University of Texas Law School. Brian has been licensed to practice law since 1979. Brian has been married for more forty years to his law school classmate, Cynthia Marshall Sullivan. They have three children and five grandchildren.
