Career Biography

Trecia M. Canty has 25+ years of demonstrated expertise in finance, strategic transactions, corporate governance, compliance, enterprise risk and ESG. She has served as a strategic advisor to public and private boards of directors, CEOs and C-suite executives throughout her career and has extensive energy industry experience, including with respect to oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P), crude oil refining, utilities, and pipeline and terminal operations.

As Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary and a member of the Executive Committee of PBF Energy Inc. (NYSE: PBF), a Fortune 200 company, Ms. Canty is actively engaged in all aspects of the company’s businesses, focusing on identifying, evaluating and mitigating business, legal, regulatory, operational and transactional risks. Ms. Canty also serves on the Board of Directors of Uranium Energy Corp. (NYSE: UEC), America’s largest and fastest growing uranium production and exploration company, where she chairs the Sustainability Committee.

Prior to joining PBF, Ms. Canty served as Associate General Counsel, Corporate at Southwestern Energy Company, a natural gas and oil exploration and production company with operations in the United States and Canada. She was previously associated with Cleary Gottlieb in New York, where she represented domestic and international corporate clients in securities law, mergers and acquisitions matters, finance, governance, and general corporate matters.

Her legal prowess and leadership skills have been recognized by numerous professional distinctions received over the years, including recognition in the Lawyers of Color Power List in 2020; inclusion in the Women Inc. 100 Top Corporate Counsel list in 2019; recognition by Black Enterprise Magazine in its Most Powerful Women in Business in 2019; and recognition by the New York County Lawyers Association as an Outstanding Women in the Legal Profession in 2017.

She has a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a juris doctorate from Columbia University School of Law.