Julie Williams

Julie Williams is Senior Vice President/Continuous Improvement and Optimization of Southwest Gas Corporation. She is responsible for driving long-term positive change throughout the entire organization and accelerating the Company’s pursuit of excellence. Julie partners with executive stakeholders to develop and execute the Company’s multi-year strategic plan.

Julie is passionate about building a culture of engagement where leadership and employees work together to advance safety, quality and excellence through innovation, continuous quality improvement, and strategic implementation of technology.

Julie most recently served as the Senior Vice President/Chief Operating Officer where she led the five operating areas serving over 2.2 million customers in Nevada, Arizona and California, along with the centralized operations support and engineering, metrics and benchmarking, customer contact center and billing. Julie has played an instrumental role in delivering operational excellence while advancing public safety, quality, the customer experience, integrity management, and field technical and leadership development.

Julie joined Southwest in 1997 and held various engineering and operations management roles. She was appointed Vice President/Northern Nevada Division in 2010, Vice President/Southern Arizona Division in 2014, and Chief Operating Officer in 2022. Julie has provided valuable leadership on multiple transformational projects that delivered growth, reliability and sustainable natural gas for the energy future.

An alumnus of Arizona State University, Julie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering and an Executive Master of Business Administration. Julie currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Western Energy Institute and the American Gas Association Operations Managing Committee.

Outside of work, Julie enjoys traveling, hiking and spending time with her husband Kaz and 8-year-old son Tomo.

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