Rosetta Resources Inc. confirmed that Carin S. Knickel has been appointed to its board of directors, effective July 10.

Knickel served as vice president of human resources for ConocoPhillips until her retirement on May 1. She joined ConocoPhillips in 1979 and has held various operating, planning and business development positions throughout her career. She held positions in Europe as general manager of business development for refining and marketing and then fulfilled the same role for exploration and production. She returned to the U.S. as general manager of refining, marketing and transportation and in 2001 she was named president of ConocoPhillips specialty businesses division.

Knickel holds a bachelor's degree in marketing and statistics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a master's degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.