Current source roster
Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority
Secretary and trustee
Current; renewed term expires April 30, 2029
Term end is scheduled, not proof of completed tenure. Initial service date not inferred.
People / Government & civic life
Jeffery Dunn
Utility trustee · Mill Creek president and CEO
A building-supply executive whose civic work connects Tulsa utilities, business advocacy and public higher education.
Jeffery “Jeff” Dunn is secretary of the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority and a member of the Tulsa Utility Board. The Tulsa City Council confirmed his reappointment to both bodies on July 23, 2025, for a term expiring April 30, 2029. He is also president and CEO of Mill Creek Lumber & Supply Company and a former Tulsa Regional Chamber chair. His record spans municipal infrastructure, regional business advocacy and historical service as a state university regent.
City of Tulsa — TMUA current board and responsibilities ↗Tulsa City Council — July 23, 2025 official minutes ↗Tulsa Council utility-board interview — identity verification ↗Baylor Honors College — Jeff Dunn ↗Tulsa Regional Chamber — current board of directors ↗East Central University — July 2012 Campus Update ↗
From law practice to the family business
East Central University’s July 2012 account identifies Dunn as a Baylor University graduate with a law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law. LBM Journal reported that he became Mill Creek president in 2004 after ten years practicing law. Baylor’s current institutional profile identifies him as president and CEO. The company supplies building materials; its leadership is consequently situated within the region’s construction economy. The sources establish an executive position, without establishing Dunn’s personal compensation or ownership percentage.
Career & public service
- 2004
Mill Creek presidency
Became company president after a decade practicing law, according to LBM Journal.
- June 21, 2012
RUSO swearing-in
Joined the regional universities’ governing board in Position Two.
- 2016
Chamber chair
Led the Chamber board and advocated for VisionTulsa.
- September 2018
University search chair
Named chair of the UCO presidential search advisory committee.
- September 29, 2023
Campaign receipt
Keith campaign reported a $2,000 individual contribution.
- June 12, 2024
Regional utility chair
Identified as chairman at the RMUA meeting.
- July 23, 2025
Two reappointments confirmed
Council approved continued service on TMUA and the Tulsa Utility Board through April 30, 2029.
- January 14, 2026
Utility financial review
Chaired the committee meeting receiving operating-fund and proposed-budget reports.
People, institutions and the relationships between them
Following the connections
Each step below represents a documented relationship. Dates and roles belong to the individual links; a path can span different periods.
businessMill Creek Lumber & Supply Company
personJeffery Dunn
public trustTulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority
First edge read in reverse. Distinct executive and public-trust roles; no procurement preference or control inferred.
public trustTulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority
personJeffery Dunn
boardTulsa Utility Board
Separate governing bodies joined by the Council’s explicit joint reappointment. First edge read in reverse.
personJeffery Dunn
organizationRegional University System of Oklahoma
organizationUniversity of Central Oklahoma
Historical regent service connects to the system’s university governance; a separate edge records his 2018 search chairmanship.
Documented relationships
16 documented relationships · Historical and current roles remain distinct.
Current source roster
Tulsa Utility Board
Utility Board trustee
Reappointment July 2025; service documented May 2026; term through April 2029
Appointment confirmation is separate from initial service; date is scheduled term end.
Historical record
Tulsa City Council
Joint utility reappointment confirmed
July 23, 2025
Appointment event; Council approved grouped items2a–2c, 8–0 with1absent.
Historical record
Regional Metropolitan Utility Authority
Regional authority chair
Observed June 12, 2024
Exact tenure unknown; do not present as current.
Current source roster
Mill Creek Lumber & Supply Company
President and CEO
President since 2004; current title corroborated October 2026
Business and utility identity joined using Michael’s October6 verification of meeting self-identification, matching joint appointments and institutional company biography. Not independently transcribed by automated reviewer; no ownership share inferred.
Historical record
Jim Dunn
Adult son
Publicly documented September 2019
Included for documented company succession and both adults’ institutional roles; not private family reporting.
Historical record
Jim Dunn
Company chairman · Mill Creek Lumber & Supply Company
Reported September 2019
Historical observation; current tenure not established.
Current source roster
Tulsa Regional Chamber
Past chair on board
Current listing checked October 2026
Distinct from current chair.
Historical record
Tulsa Regional Chamber chair
Chamber chair
2016
Calendar-year role; precise start/end dates not invented.
Historical record
Regional University System of Oklahoma
Regent
Sworn June21,2012; serving inSeptember2018
End date unknown; absent from current roster.
Historical record
University of Central Oklahoma
Presidential search advisory chair
Historical record
Regional University System of Oklahoma
University governing system · University of Central Oklahoma
Documented in 2018 presidential search
Institutional context for Dunn’s historical service.
Historical record
Baylor University
Bachelor’s degree
Completed before 2012 report
Degree year not verified.
Historical record
University of Illinois College of Law
Law degree
Completed before 2012 report
Degree year not verified.
Historical record
Karen Keith for Tulsa Mayor 2024
Reported individual campaign contribution
September 29, 2023
Historical reportedreceipt; laterrefund/amendmentreview incomplete. Employer not donor.
$2,000 · Original ScheduleA p9; USD monetaryreceipt; July1–September30,2023; filedOctober30,2023. Not summed with period or aggregate columns.
Historical record
Karen Keith for Tulsa Mayor 2024
Mayoral candidate committee · Karen Keith
2024 mayoral election
Committee distinct from candidate personal finances.
Dated public records
Compensation & campaign finance
Individual contribution reported by Keith campaign
$2,000
Receipt September 29, 2023; reporting period July 1–September 30, 2023
USD; original Schedule A p9, filed October 30, 2023. One historical receipt; overlapping period and aggregate columns are not added. Not a final net or cycle total.
Interpretation
How to assess his public role
The 2025 reappointment record reported attendance at 73 of 93 meetings, without specifying the period or how meetings of the two utility bodies were counted. It is an administrative snapshot rather than a current attendance rate. Evaluating Dunn’s public decisions requires the relevant motions, roll calls and conflict disclosures; business and Chamber affiliations alone cannot establish a conflict or preferential treatment. The strongest documented connections are his utility service, corporate leadership, Chamber participation and historical university governance. Their significance lies in the institutions whose decisions he has participated in, rather than an assumed ability to direct them all.
A documented family and civic connection
Floor Daily’s September 2019 report identifies Jeff’s father, Jim Dunn, as Mill Creek chairman and Jeff as president. Both men also appear on the Chamber’s current list of past chairs serving on its board. This adult family relationship matters here because it connects succession in a local business with participation in the region’s business association. The two men’s roles remain separate; kinship does not establish how either votes in a public office.
Chamber advocacy and contested economic decisions
Dunn chaired the Tulsa Regional Chamber in 2016. The Frontier’s contemporary podcast description documents his advocacy for VisionTulsa as an investment in the city’s economy. In another concrete intervention, the Chamber reported that he joined state and city leaders in New York on April 15, 2016, to urge Williams to reconsider its proposed sale to Energy Transfer Equity. The Chamber framed the issue around retaining headquarters employment. Energy Transfer subsequently announced termination of the merger agreement on June 29, 2016. That outcome does not establish that Dunn or the delegation caused the transaction to fail. His current Chamber listing is as a past chair on the board, not the sitting chair.
A former regent in university leadership selection
East Central University reported Dunn’s swearing-in to Position Two of the Regional University System of Oklahoma board on June 21, 2012. In September 2018, RUSO named him chair of the advisory committee searching for the next University of Central Oklahoma president. That committee brought regents together with university and community representatives; chairing it did not give Dunn sole power to appoint a president. RUSO’s present roster does not list him. These are historical roles, and the exact end of his regent service has not been established in this profile.
Regional water infrastructure
Minutes for June 12, 2024 identify Dunn as chairman of the Regional Metropolitan Utility Authority and a Tulsa representative. The meeting received a Haikey Creek wastewater-treatment report. His documented role therefore extended beyond one city’s utility board into regional infrastructure governance. The packet’s later October agenda scheduled an officer election; the June designation is a dated observation, not evidence that he remains regional chairman today.
Financial review and the limits of a meeting record
The January 14, 2026 minutes identify Dunn as chair of TMUA’s Finance and Revenue Committee. The committee received operating-fund reports and a presentation of the fiscal 2027 budget request and fiscal 2028 financial plan. Those minutes document financial review, without recording adoption of that proposed budget. The Tulsa Utility Board’s May 13, 2026 minutes also list Dunn present. A rate-adjustment item on that meeting’s agenda was pulled before the meeting, so it cannot be counted as a rate increase approved that day.
A reported personal campaign contribution
Karen Keith’s mayoral campaign reported a $2,000 individual contribution from Jeff Dunn on September 29, 2023, identifying him as Mill Creek president. The original Schedule A covers July 1–September 30, 2023 and bears an October 30 filing stamp. Its transaction, period and aggregate columns describe the same $2,000 receipt; they are not three additive gifts. This is a dated campaign receipt, not corporate spending, personal earnings or proof of a policy bargain. Later reports exist, and the figure is not presented as his final net contribution or a complete election-cycle total.
Check the record
Sources & corrections
Research checked 2026-10-06. Roles and financial figures retain their source dates. Sections appear only when supported material is available; an omitted section is not a finding that no such relationship exists.
- City of Tulsa — TMUA current board and responsibilities ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-05
Board members and authority responsibilities; undated current page checked October 5.
- Regional Metropolitan Utility Authority — October 2024 quarterly report ↗
primary · Source date 2024-10-30 · Checked 2026-10-05
PDF page 25: June 12, 2024 minutes, chair, roll call and approval of March minutes. Page 22: October 30 agenda schedules officer election. Historical chair only.
- TMUA Finance and Revenue Committee — January 14, 2026 minutes ↗
primary · Source date 2026-01-14 · Checked 2026-10-05
PDF pages 1–2: chairman, roll call, prior-minutes motion, monthly financial report and FY27 budget presentation. No financial amounts reproduced; apparent unit/time errors require original-table reconciliation.
- Tulsa Utility Board — May 13, 2026 minutes ↗
primary; web-reader copy · Source date 2026-05-13 · Checked 2026-10-06
PDF page1 roll call lists Jeff Dunn present; page10 Finance & Revenue/Dunn: no report. Original URL readable through web reader, but direct download returned an HTML error; original binary archive remains unavailable.
- Tulsa City Council — July 23, 2025 official minutes ↗
primary · Source date 2025-07-23 · Checked 2026-10-06
PDF p2, printed11861: item2c; approval of2a–2c, 8yeas,0nays,1absent,0abstentions; termApril30,2029. Original archived.
- Tulsa Council utility-board interview — identity verification ↗
official recording; identity passage verified by Michael · Source date 2025-07-16 · Checked 2026-10-06
July16,2025 UED item3, approximately09:45 within09:10–13:55. Michael verified the Mill Creek self-identification on October6. Original speech not independently transcribed by automated reviewer; date distinguished from July23 confirmation. User-supplied Citizen Portal excerpt corroborates the same company and joint appointments.
- Baylor Honors College — Jeff Dunn ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-06
Named institutional profile and portrait; President and CEO, Mill Creek Lumber & Supply Company. Web reader verified; direct HTML403, image200.
- East Central University — July 2012 Campus Update ↗
primary · Source date 2012-07 · Checked 2026-10-06
PDF p1, Regent Dunn Visits ECU: June21 swearing-in, PositionTwo replacingBelvaHoward, MillCreekCEO, Baylor bachelor and Illinois law degree.
- LBM Journal — Playing to Your Strengths ↗
independent trade reporting · Source date 2015-02-06 · Checked 2026-10-06
Dealer profile p2, Jeff president in2004 after ten years practicinglaw. Direct archive403; indexed article excerpt verified.
- Floor Daily — Mill Creek joins FEI Group ↗
trade reporting · Source date 2019-09-19 · Checked 2026-10-06
September19,2019 report identifies Jeff as president and fatherJim as chairman; family ownership reported without individual percentages.
- Tulsa Regional Chamber — current board of directors ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-06
Past Chairs on the Board lists JeffDunn and JimDunn with MillCreek affiliation. Current observation, not claim of current chairmanship.
- Tulsa Regional Chamber — 2016 annual report ↗
primary · Source date 2016 · Checked 2026-10-06
Letter from2016chairJeffDunn; VisionTulsa and Williams sections. Organization account attributed.
- RUSO — UCO presidential search ↗
primary · Source date 2018-09-27 · Checked 2026-10-06
JeffDunn named RUSOregent and searchadvisorycommitteechair; UCO successionafterDonBetz; committee notsoleappointingauthority.
- RUSO — current regents ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-06
Current nine-position roster does not listDunn; eight governorappointees plus state superintendent. Historical service not extended to present.
- The Frontier — Jeff Dunn talks VisionTulsa ↗
independent reporting · Source date 2016-02-26 · Checked 2026-10-06
Published podcast description documents Chamberchair advocacy forVisionTulsa; no claim of independent audio transcription.
- Tulsa Regional Chamber — delegation meets Williams chairman ↗
primary · Source date 2016-04-15 · Checked 2026-10-06
April15NewYorkmeeting: Dunn, governor,mayor and Chamber delegation askedWilliams to reconsiderETE sale; attributed organizational account.
- Energy Transfer — termination of Williams merger ↗
primary · Source date 2016-06-29 · Checked 2026-10-06
June29,2016 termination announcement; no causal attribution toDunn orChamber.
- Karen Keith campaign — 2023 third-quarter Schedule A ↗
campaign-filing · Source date 2023-10-30 · Checked 2026-10-06
Original PDFpp1,9 visuallychecked: filedOctober30,2023 13:29; periodJuly1–September30,2023; September29 JeffDunn,MillCreekPresident, individualUSD2000. Unmarkedamendedbox. Period/aggregate same2000 notadded. Historicalreceipt,notcycle/nettotal.
- City of Tulsa — mayor campaign report archive ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-06
KarenKeitharchive includes newerreports through2025Q1; no explicitlylabeledamended2023Q3ScheduleA found. Subsequentrefund/amendmentcoverage notexhaustive.