Organization & Leadership

April Lockler

Director (Acting)

April Lockler began serving as the Acting Director of the Office of Natural Resources Revenue's (ONRR) in May 2025. As ONRR’s Director, Ms. Lockler provides leadership and guidance to the organization and oversees the day-to-day operations of the Denver Office, as well as the ONRR field offices in Houston and Dallas, Texas; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Farmington, New Mexico.

Prior to this position, Ms. Lockler served as Deputy Director beginning in December 2023. As the Deputy Director, she provided advisory and coordination support to the Director and other ONRR managers. The business line organizations receive assistance from program support staff reporting to the Deputy Director including workforce development and planning efforts, coordinating strategic performance and planning, data management and information sharing, operational research and analytics, and managing major IT projects and modernization initiatives.

Ms. Lockler began her Federal career in 2009 with the Department of Defense executing the United States Marine Corps’ accounting and financial reporting processes before arriving at the Department of Interior in 2012, when she joined ONRR as an auditor. Starting in 2016, she supervised ONRR’s Financial Service’s Team 3, where she was responsible for issuing invoices and reconciling payments to aid in the collection and distribution of monies to Tribes and individual Indian mineral fund recipients. Ms. Lockler joined ONRR's Reference and Reporting Management (RRM) as the Reference and Reporting Team 1 Manager in 2018 and became the Program Manager overseeing RRM in 2021. Ms. Lockler led and supported RRM and the Indian Energy Service Center's ONRR Support Team's transition in 2022 to become the Data Intake, Solutioning, and Coordination (DISC) Program to which she led passionate energy revenue experts in the collection, validation, and coordination activities for reference, production, royalty, and customer data.

Ms. Lockler earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Charleston, West Virginia, and a Master of Business Administration from Cleveland State University.