When the Oklahoma Corporation Commission fired Brandy Wreath as Director of Administration in December 2025, it was mum about the reason and any possible financial settlement.
Financial records now show Wreath received more than $220,000 in payments in continued salary and settlement with the final payments made just last month.
According to the State of Oklahoma Payroll-Fiscal Year 2026 records made available by the Office of Enterprise and Management Services (opengov.com/data/) Wreath received two large severance payments classified as “terminal leave” and they were dated Feb. 6, 2026. The Corporation Commission is referred to as “Agency #18500” in the data.
The largest such “terminal leave” payment was $65,679.23 while a second such payment totaled $59,384.00. A third payment, classified as “pay” and also dated Feb. 6 totaled $83,395.75.
Combined with two pay checks each of $6,923.08 dated Jan. 9, 2026 and Jan. 23, 2026, Wreath was paid $220,395.14.
The $6,923.08 were considered his regular salary as Wreath was paid more $13,800 a month while employed as Director of Administration.
Wreath was terminated by the commission Dec. 30, 2025 but commissioners made no public statements about the reason for the dismissal, only that they planned a search for a new Director of Administration.
Wreath had been Director since June 2022. He went to work for the Corporation Commission in 2006 and served as a Public Utilities Division senior auditor and expert witness in multiple public utility cases. Wreath served as the PUD Director for ten years before being named the Director of Administration and was responsible for the agency’s day-to-day operations and oversaw an annual budget of $68 million.
When he was fired by the commission, Wreath claimed the three commissioners, Kim David, Todd Hiett and Brian Bingman, gave him no reason for his termination.
“They just said that I could resign or they would terminate me, and either way, there was the severance package that they’d do on the separation. And I said, ‘I will not willingly leave my people.’ I’ve worked too hard to be here for them, and I, you know — what’s the termination going to do to me that hadn’t already been done by the years?”
Days later, Trey Davis, reported to be a right-hand man as Chief of Communications and Operations Officer for Wreath, was also terminated. He came to work on a Monday morning and found his personal office items were in a box and was told his services were no longer needed
He received $102,263 in severance and regular pay. Records showed two terminal leave payments, one for $65,337.50 and another for $11,628.94. Three other payments in February involved $17,670.56, $2,600 in longevity pay and $5,026 in regular pay.