Nominees for Directors for Terms Expiring in 2010 - Class I for Devon

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This excerpt taken from the DVN DEF 14A filed Apr 27, 2007.

Nominees for Directors for Terms Expiring in 2010 – Class I


		*Thomas F. Ferguson*		Director since 1982 Audit Committee Chairman

		Mr. Ferguson, age 70, retired in 2005 from his position as Managing Director of United Gulf Management Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kuwait Investment Projects Company KSC. He has represented Kuwait Investment Projects Company on the boards of various companies in which it invests, including Baltic Transit Bank in Latvia and Tunis International Bank in Tunisia. Mr. Ferguson is a Canadian qualified Certified General Accountant and was formerly employed by the Economist Intelligence Unit of London as a financial consultant.

		*David M. Gavrin*		Director since 1979 Compensation Committee Chairman and Lead Director

		Mr. Gavrin, age 72, has been a private investor since 1989 and is currently a director and Chairman of the Board of MetBank Holding Corp. He is also President and a director of Arthur J. Gavrin Foundation, Inc. From 1978 to 1988 he was a General Partner of Windcrest Partners, a private investment partnership in New York City, and, for 14 years prior to that, he was an officer of Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated.



	*John Richels*	*Director Nominee*

	Mr. Richels, age 56, was elected as our President in 2004. He served as a Senior Vice President from 2001 to 2004 and President and Chief Executive Officer of our Canadian subsidiary from 1998 to 2004. Mr. Richels joined us through our 1998 acquisition of Canadian-based Northstar Energy Corporation. Prior to joining Northstar, Mr. Richels was Managing and Chief Operating Partner of the Canadian-based national law firm, Bennett Jones. Mr. Richels previously has served as a director of a number of publicly traded companies.

Directors Whose Terms Expire in 2008 – Class III

	*John A. Hill*	Director since 2000 Governance Committee Chairman

	Mr. Hill, age 65, has been with First Reserve Corporation, an oil and gas investment management company, since 1983 and is currently its Vice Chairman and Managing Director. Prior to creating First Reserve Corporation, Mr. Hill was President and Chief Executive Officer of several investment banking and asset management companies and served as the Deputy Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration during the Ford administration. Mr. Hill is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Putnam Funds in Boston, a Trustee of Sarah Lawrence College and a director of TransMontaigne Inc. and various companies controlled by First Reserve Corporation.

	*William J. Johnson*	*Director since 1999*

	Mr. Johnson, age 72, has been a private consultant to the oil and gas industry since 1994. He is President and a Director of JonLoc Inc., an oil and gas company of which he and his family are the only stockholders. Mr. Johnson has served as a director of Tesoro Corp. since 1996. From 1991 to 1994, Mr. Johnson was President, Chief Operating Officer and a director of Apache Corporation.

Directors Whose Terms Expire in 2009 – Class II

	*Robert L. Howard*	Director since 2003 Reserves Committee Chairman

	Mr. Howard, age 70, retired in 1995 from his position as Vice President of Domestic Operations, Exploration and Production of Shell Oil Company. He served as a director of Ocean Energy, Inc. from 1996 to 2003. Mr. Howard is also a director of Southwestern Energy Company and McDermott International Incorporated.

	*Michael M. Kanovsky*	*Director since 1998*

	Mr. Kanovsky, age 58, was a co-founder of Northstar Energy Corporation and served on Northstar’s Board of Directors from 1982 to 1998. He is President of Sky Energy Corporation and serves as a director of Kinwest Energy Corporation and North American Oil Sands Corporation, all privately held energy corporations. Mr. Kanovsky currently serves as a director of Accrete Energy Inc., ARC Resources Ltd., Bonavista Petroleum Ltd., Pure Technologies Ltd. and TransAlta Corporation.



	*J. Todd Mitchell*	*Director since 2002*

	Mr. Mitchell, age 48, served as President of GPM, Inc., a family-owned investment company, from 1998 to 2006, and currently serves as its Vice President for strategic planning. He has also served as President of Dolomite Resources, Inc., a privately owned mineral exploration and investments company since 1987 and as Chairman of Rock Solid Images, a privately owned seismic data analysis software company since 1998. Mr. Mitchell served on the Board of Directors of Mitchell Energy & Development Corp. from 1993 to 2002.

	*J. Larry Nichols*	Director since 1971 Chairman of the Board Dividend Committee Chairman

	Mr. Nichols, age 64, is one of our co-founders. He was named Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2000. He served as President from 1976 until 2003 and has served as Chief Executive Officer since 1980. Mr. Nichols serves as a director of Baker Hughes Incorporated and Sonic Corp.

*Chairman Emeritus*

	*John W. Nichols*	*Director 1971-1999*

	Mr. Nichols, age 92, is one of our co-founders. He was named Chairman Emeritus in 1999. Mr. Nichols was Chairman of our Board of Directors when we began operations in 1971 and continued in this capacity until 1999. He is a founding partner of Blackwood & Nichols Co., which developed the conventional reserves in the Northeast Blanco Unit of the San Juan Basin. Mr. Nichols is a non-practicing Certified Public Accountant.

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