While a legislator, Easley also held various management roles for Samson Energy, Home-Stake Oil and Gas Company, and BP Amoco.

At just 24 years of age, Easley joined the Oklahoma House of Representatives in January 1985 as its youngest member.

[2] As a House member that year, he authored a law requiring drivers and passengers in moving motor vehicles to wear seatbelts.

A joint resolution he authored in 1991 created a new state commission to study how to boost natural gas prices, and, in 1992, he authored a law recommended by the commission that required operators of hundreds of the state's largest natural gas wells to cut production during the warmest months of the year in an effort to boost prices for the commodity to spur more drilling activity within the state.

In January 2004, Easley resigned his Senate seat to become the Executive Director of the Grand River Development Authority.