BP is replacing ex-Brunswick Group director and former Dick Cheney press secretary Anne Womack-Kolton after bringing her in-house from Brunswick two months ago.
Bloomberg reports that Kolton is being replaced by 12-year BP veteran Scott Dean, who worked the company's Texas refinery blast and has headed U.S. media operations since July.
The move comes as BP has made significant progress in sealing off the leaking Gulf well.
Kolton joined APCO Worldwide as a VP at the close of the Bush administration in 2008 and was assistant press secretary at the White House, press secretary to Cheney during the 2004 campaign, and served as director of public affairs at the Dept. of Energy during the second Bush administration from 2005-07.
She was plucked out of the Texas Attorney General's office in 2000 to work as a press assistant on the Bush/Cheney campaign.
