Artie Limmer/Texas Tech University System
James L. Burkhart
Established in 1939, the Texas Tech Foundation supports and promotes all colleges, schools, programs and campuses of the Texas Tech University System.
Vice Chairman
James Burkhart is chairman of BRG Energy in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and CLX Oil and Gas Co. in Denver. He also manages private investments.
Burkhart graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering and attended the graduate school of business at the University of Tulsa.
Burkhart is the past director of the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association. He serves on the board of the Ranching Heritage Center Association and is a member of the Red Raider Club.
He is married to Jere Lynn Irwin Burkhart.