Steven Percy spent 23 years with BP America Inc. (previously Standard Oil Company) in various capacities before retiring as chairman and CEO in 1999. He served on President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development. He is a past chair of the CSU Foundation Board of Directors and served as interim dean of CSU’s Monte Ahuja College of Business. Percy is a member of the Executive Committee of the CSU|LAW Board of Visitors and is the law school’s first Leader-in-Residence. In 2014 he generously established the Steven W. Percy Endowed Professorship to recognize exceptional work in environmental or energy law. He received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Cleveland-Marshall in 2017.