WPX Energy, Inc. announced that Valerie M. Williams has been elected to the company’s board of directors effectively immediately. Williams has more than 35 years of audit and public accounting experience with Ernst & Young, LLP, most recently as the Southwest Region Assurance Managing Partner where she had responsibility for a $500 million audit practice encompassing nine states, 14 offices and 1,200 employees. She retired from the firm in 2016. Williams will serve on WPX’s audit committee. She is WPX’s eleventh independent director. Two members of the WPX board, William R. Granberry and George A. Lorch, are scheduled to retire at the time of the company’s annual meeting in May. Both have served WPX since its start as an independent company in 2012.