Full Name
Deanna Farmer
Job Title
Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
Company
Enable Midstream Partners
Speaker Bio
Deanna Farmer serves as Enable Midstream Partners’ Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer. In this role, she oversees corporate support functions including Human Resources, Enterprise Technology, Learning and Development, Corporate Communications and Community Affairs, Contract and Measurement Data Management, Corporate Administrative Services, System Operations and Supply Chain.

Farmer has spent the majority of her career specializing in energy, specifically focused in the oil and gas segment, with experience across the value chain from exploration and production, midstream, transmission pipeline, and distribution. Before joining Enable in 2014, Farmer held executive positions at Chesapeake Energy and Access Midstream, including Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Corporate Services. She has also served in a number of leadership roles, including Chief Financial Officer and Controller at Columbia Natural Resources, NiSource, and Columbia Energy Group.
In addition to finance, information technology, and human resources Farmer has experience in acquisitions and divestitures, corporate integration, business and process transformation and organizational change management. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from West Virginia State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Farmer was a former board member of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber and Advisory Board member of Oklahoma Women in Technology and currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Greater Oklahoma City Women’s Energy Network.

Farmer has been recognized as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Oil and Gas by the National Diversity Council, as well as one of the 25 Influential Women in Energy by Oil and Gas Investor.

She has a passion for developing organizations, driving results, growing leadership, and shaping culture. Her greatest passion is her faith and family, her two sons, Cody and Colt, husband Steve, as well as her dogs Banjo, Bella, Ruger, and Ru.
Deanna Farmer