ODOT names general counsel

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OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Department of Transportation has named Sarah Penn as general counsel.

She was the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality’s general counsel.

Before she served as general counsel at DEQ, Penn worked as the deputy general counsel and as an air quality attorney for the department. Previously, she worked for the Oklahoma attorney general’s office in the Environmental Protection Unit, as chief of staff for former Corporation Commissioner Ed Apple and as a visiting professor of American Political Science and English in France.

Penn has a juris doctorate, master of public administration and bachelor’s degree in French from the University of Oklahoma.

ODOT also appointed Holly Lowe as director of audits in the Operations Review and Evaluation Division.

Lowe comes to ODOT from the mortgage industry, where she was a CEO. She has 20 years of internal audit and oversight experience.

Lowe has worked in private industry, including as a chief audit executive, chief risk officer and chief ethics officer. Before moving to the private sector, she served as chief financial officer and acting director for the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, beginning her career there in 1994.

Lowe has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Oklahoma. She has been a certified public accountant since 1990.