Miranda Childress
2024 Rising Star
B.S. Geology, '12; M.S. Geology, '15
Miranda Childress is from Morrison, Oklahoma, and started as a freshman at Oklahoma State University in 2008. Through an introductory geology course led by Dr. Jim Puckette, Miranda quickly found her passion for geology and knew she wanted to pursue a career as a geologist in the oil and gas industry.
Upon receiving her bachelor’s degree in geology in 2012, she continued graduate course
work at OSU in pursuance of her master’s degree under the advisement of Dr. G. Michael
Grammer. Her research was focused on high resolution carbonate sequence stratigraphy
in Mississippian-age strata in the Midcontinent.
Following an internship at Devon Energy and completing her master’s degree in 2015,
Miranda started as a full-time geologist at Devon Energy. Since then, she has had
the opportunity to work multiple basins across the U.S., including the Anadarko, Midland
and Permian Basins.
Starting in 2022, Miranda has been in her role as asset supervisor in the Delaware
Basin Business Unit at Devon, where she leads a multidisciplinary team responsible
for the appraisal and development of hydrocarbon resources in the eastern Delaware
Basin.
Miranda remains an active member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists
and the Oklahoma City Geological Society, while also dedicating time to the Devon
Internship Program, recruitment and STEM outreach.