Careers and Alumni

Alexis Andiman ’13, is the Senior Attorney in EarthJustice’s Northeast office, where she is focusing on sustainable food and farming issues.

Kacky Andrews LLM ’95 is Chief of Strategy for Ocean Conservancy.

Karl Anuta ’85, practices with the Law Office of Karl Anuta; he has set numerous legal precedents as lead counsel in water and forest law cases.

Vartan Badalian ’18, Director of U.S. Transportation Programs for the Center for Sustainable Energy

Nina Bell ’91, is the Executive Director of Northwest Environmental Advocates.

Haley Blake (Lutz) MSL ’16 is the Executive Director of the Coos Watershed Association

Andrew Bowman LLM ’04 is the President and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife

Rachel Briggs ’18, Staff Attorney, Conservation Law Foundation

Emma Bruden ’16, is an Associate Attorney at Kampmeier & Knutsen, PLLC.

Julie Carter LLM ’02 is a Policy Analyst at the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.

Sam Diaz ’15, Executive Director at 1000 Friends of Oregon

Holly Duncan, ’87, Founder and President of Environmental Law Education Center, in Portland, Oregon

Rebecca Fischer ’16 is the Assistant Attorney General at Colorado Attorney General’s Office and formally was the Climate and Energy Program Attorney at WildEarth Guardians in Denver, Colorado.

Joe Furia ’08 is the Executive Director at World Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon

Erin Gaines ’11 is a Senior Associate at High Street Strategies. Formerly served as Advocacy Manager for KEEN Footwear and was the Natural Resources Counsel and Legislative Correspondent for the Office of U.S. Senator Ron Wyden.

Sami Godlove MSL ’23, Field Associate at Oregon Wild

Maggie Hall ’13 is a Deputy Chief Counsel at the Environmental Defense Center in California. Before joining EDC, Maggie worked at Los Angeles Waterkeeper.

Sangye Ince-Johannsen ’19 Staff Attorney formally Legal Fellow, Western Environmental Law Center

Eric Ini LLM ’12, Chief Equity and Partnership Office, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy 

Steven Kallick ’83, is a Director of International Conservation and Human Rights at Resources Legacy Fund.

Kimberly Kosa MSL ’17 is the Development Director at Wild Salmon Center

Peter (Mac) Lacy ’01 is a Senior Attorney at Oregon Natural Desert Association. His cases focus on wilderness, grazing, travel planning, imperiled species, and energy development issues on eastern Oregon’s public lands and he also handles FOIA litigation.

Adena Leibman ’13 Senior Advisor at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association

Tyler Lobdell ’17, is Staff Attorney, Food and Water Watch

Rob Lothrop ’81, is the Manager of Policy Development and Litigation Support for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, where he has played a pivotal role in developing and implementing fish and wildlife measures in the Columbia River Basin.

Kacy Manahan ’18 is a Senior Attorney at Delaware Riverkeeper Network

Marla Nelson Fox ’12 is a staff attorney with Environmental Advocates.

Stephanie Parent ’92, is a Senior Counsel with the Environmental Health program at the Center for Biological Diversity in Portland.

Lizzy Potter, JD ’10, LLM ’11, Staff Attorney, Advocates for the West

Laurie Rule ’01 is a Senior Attorney at Advocates for the West, Portland, Oregon office.

Jonah Sandford ’15,  Executive Director of the Northwest Environmental Defense Center

Joni Sliger ’17, is the Senior Clean Energy Policy Specialist at Oregon Dept. of Energy.

Teri Tracy MSL ’25 is the Eastern Sierra Policy Coordinator for the Mono Lake Committee.

Haley Adams ’17 is a Principal Environmental and Land Use Attorney at NextEra Energy Resources.

Gregory Adams ’06 is a principal of the law firm of Richardson Adams, PLLC. His law practice focuses on energy regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters, as well as natural resource and environmental law matters.

Paula Brosnahan LLM, specializes in environmental, planning and resource management law at Chapman Tripp in New Zealand.

Paul Conable ’97 Partner at Tonkon Torp LLP, representing both individuals and businesses in contract and investment disputes, government investigations, and environmental matters.

William Enoch ’18, is an Associate at Helsell Fetterman, LLP in Seattle, WA

Andy Erickson ’13 is a Partner with Landye Bennett Blumstein in Anchorage, Alaska. His practice focuses on Alaska Native law, litigation, municipal law, bankruptcy, natural resource and appellate law.

Jeff Fereday ’80, is a retired Partner at Givens Pursley, LLP in Boise, Idaho. He represented municipal water suppliers, industrial clients, irrigators, land developers, mining companies and nonprofit organizations in issues relating to environmental law, water rights, endangered species, wetlands, mining and public lands.

Jerry Fish ’82, is a retired partner at Stoel Rives LLP in Portland, Oregon, where he handled cases relating to oil and gas exploration and storage, hydroelectric project relicensing and compliance, and mining for gold, silver, copper, coal and industrial minerals.

Stephanie Grant ’15, is a Partner in the Litigation Department at Tonkon Torp in Portland, Oregon. Prior to joining Tonkon Torp, she served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Mary Beck Briscoe, at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Stephanie worked on a number of civil and criminal matters, including administrative, environmental, employment, civil rights, and Federal Arbitration Act cases.

Cameron Jimmo ’16 was an Associate Attorney with Perkins Coie in Anchorage, Alaska where he leveraged his experience as a former assistant attorney general with the Alaska Department of Law’s Environmental Section. A member of the firm’s Environment & Natural Resources practice group, Cameron’s background includes managing a docket of compliance and enforcement issues.

Laura Kerr ’14, is a Partner at Stoel Rives in the Portland, Oregon office. She works with issues involving air and water quality, waste management, chemical spills, land contamination, and other environmental liabilities.

Brandon Kline JD ’15, LLM ’16, Of Counsel at Best, Best, and Krieger LLP. He advises and defends clients in matters involving environmental and commercial litigation, premises liability, product defects, and toxic tort defense.

Katrina Krebs ’18 is a Senior Associate at Beveridge and Diamond in New York City, where her practice focuses on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) issues, wetlands regulation, federal species protection laws, land use law, and litigation

Nick Lawton ’13, is Senior Attorney in the Clean Energy Program at Earthjustice in Washington, D.C

Jim Martin ’81, Of Counsel at Beatty & Wozniak, P.C.  Prior to this Jim was the Regional Administrator for the U.S. EPA, and prior to that the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources under Governor Ritter.

Alan Merkle, ’82 is a retired partner and former Chair of Stoel Rives, LLP.

Souvanny Miller ’16, is an Associate with Hornecker Cowling LLP in Medford, Oregon where she focuses on municipal law, land use, civil litigation, family law and appeals

Carlisle Pearson ’20, is an Associate Attorney at Lane Powell in Portland, OR.  His practice was focused primarily in the areas of infrastructure, energy, construction and design, and government contracts. 

Matthew Preusch ’13 is a Partner at Keller Rohrback in their Complex Litigation Group focusing on environmental, consumer protection, and government entity litigation. Before joining Keller Rohrback, Matthew served as an honors attorney in the Oregon DOJ’s appellate and trial divisions. During law school, he served as a judicial extern for the Hon. Michael W. Mosman in the District of Oregon. Prior to law school, he spent 10 years as a journalist, covering news for The Oregonian, The New York Times and other publications

Kathryn Roberts ’17 Senior Deputy District Counsel at California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District.

Elizabeth Rosso LLM ’14 is Assistant General Counsel for Environment, Health, Safety, and Security at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She has experience with the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; natural resources conservation and protection under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, and Endangered Species Act; and spill and release response. Prior to entering private practice, Elizabeth served for 14 years as an officer in the Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps.

Adrienne Thompson ’13, is a Partner at Troutman Sanders in Portland, Oregon where she provides regulatory and transactional advice to clients involved in the generation, marketing, and transmission of electric energy. Prior to joining Troutman Sanders, Adrienne served as the 2014-2016 Energy Law Scholar and Sustainable Energy Initiative (SEI) Research Associate at George Washington University Law School in Washington D.C.

Craig Trueblood ’85, is a partner in the Seattle law firm of K&L Gates where he provides counsel for a diverse group of corporate and government clients in the areas of environmental, land use, and real estate law.

Kent van Alstyne ’15, worked for the southwest Washington law firm of Phillips Burgess. Prior to joining Phillips Burgess, he was a staff attorney with the Pierce County Housing Justice Project. During law school, van Alstyne was a full-time law clerk for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a law clerk for the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals, and a summer intern for a senior advocate of the Supreme Court of India.

Ryan Anderson LLM ’09 is Deputy Regional Environmental Counsel for the U.S. Navy.

Kathleen “KC” Becker ’96, EPA Regional Administrator, Region 8

Earl Blumenauer ’76 formerly represented Oregon’s 3rd District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Lev Blumenstein ’17 is Assistant Division Counsel at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division in Portland, Oregon

Governor Kate Brown ’85, is the former Governor of the State of Oregon.

Liv Brumfield ’13 is the Renew Forest Park Coordinator for the City of Portland. Previously she worked for Congressman Earl Blumenauer ’76 as his district representative on environmental, natural resources, energy, agriculture, and animal welfare issues.

Liz Crosson ’08 is the Chief Sustainability, Resiliency, and Innovation Officer for the Metropolitian Water District of Sourthern California. 

Leah Feldon ’04 is the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality, Oregon

Joshua Fortenbery ’16 is an attorney with NOAA: National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration

Andrew Futerman ’18, Attorney Advisor at US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10

Parks Gilbert LLM ’13 is an Attorney Advisor for the U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington D.C.

Morgan Gratz-Weiser MSL ’16, Deputy Legislative Director, Office of Governor Tina Kotek in Oregon

Brad Grenham ’95, United States Department of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor. He focuses on public land law, water law, and natural resource damage assessments; Adjunct Prof. at Lewis & Clark Law School 

Heidi Heitcamp ’80 is a former U.S. Senator from North Dakota.

Clayton Hill LLM ’24 is the Sr. Policy Advisor at the Washington State House of Representatives.

Ed Jewell LLM ’17 is the Municipal Attorney II for the City of Boise, Idaho

Kathryn Kempton LLM ’08, is Chief of the Southwest Section Office of General Counsel at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Jeannie Lee ’08 is the Assistant General Counsel for the California Environmental Protection Agency.

Margi Lifsey (Bradway) ’00 is the Director of Community Services for Multnomah County.

Jenny Loda ’12, Deputy Attorney General at CA DOJ Environmental Section

Cyndy Mackey ’86 former Director of Office of Site Remediation Enforcement, EPA, Washington D.C.

Peter Monson ’82, is the former Clear Creek County, Colorado Commissioner. Previously, he has served as the Assistant Section Chief of the Indian Resources Section at the U.S. Department of Justice. Before his retirement, he successfully litigated numerous and complex lawsuits involving water rights, hunting and fishing rights, land claims, mineral and oil and gas issues, Indian gaming, environmental issues involving Indian lands and natural resources, and defense of federal agency actions.

Phil Schiliro ’81 formerly served on President Barack Obama’s presidential campaign as director of the Washington, D.C., office. Following the election, he served as director of the Congressional Liaison Office for President Obama’s transition team before being named as an assistant to the president and director of legislative affairs for the White House. In 2011, Schiliro moved from the Office of Legislative Affairs to a new position as a special advisor to the president, where he served through Fall of 2011. In 2014, he served a short period of time as the President’s Health Care Advisor. 

Brett C. Shepard LLM ’17, is an Attorney with the Resource Sustainment & Restoration branch of the Environmental Law Division, US Army Legal Services Agency in Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

John Shurts ’83, is the General Counsel in the Legal Division of the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, a unique Congressionally-established organization that helps the Pacific Northwest states make critical decisions that balance the multiple purposes of the Columbia River and its tributaries.

Colby Stewart, JD/LLM ’16. Deputy District Counsel at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Sacramento, California

Amira Streeter ’13 is the Senior Government Affairs and Community Engagement Manager at Voltera. Prior to this position Amira served as the Natural Resources Policy Advisor and the Climate, Energy, and Transportation Policy Advisor to former State of Oregon Governor, Kate Brown. 

Nidhi Thakar ’08 is the Senior Vice President of Policy for Clean Energy Buyers Association in Washington, D.C.

Sean Thompson LLM ’17, serves as an Active Duty U.S. Navy Judge Advocate in the position of Deputy Environmental Counsel for U.S. Pacific Fleet, located in Pearl Harbor, Hawai’i.

Anne Thrall-Nash MSL ’24 is the US DOE Energy Innovator Fellow at U.S. Dept of Energy.

Meredith Price ’13, is an attorney at Intel Corporation. Previously she was an Associate with Perkins Coie.

Chuck D. Barlow LLM ’95, is vice president of environmental policy and strategy for Entergy Corporation. He previously served as General Counsel of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.

Dennis Treacy ’83, is the Executive Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at Smithfield Foods, where he directs numerous company-wide efforts that have earned Smithfield a national reputation as an industry leader, particularly in the areas of environmental stewardship, animal welfare and sustainability. He previously served as the director of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.

Rob Greene LLM, Senior legal advisor to the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Tribal Council and the Spirit Mountain Gaming, Inc. Board of Directors.

Logan Hollers LLM ’11 is Director at Invariant. Previously he was a Legislative Assistant at the U.S. House of Representatives.

Clifford Villa ’93 is Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches environmental law and constitutional law courses.

Tshering Dolkar LLM ’18 is a Lecturer of Environmental Law and Sustainable Development at the Kingdom of Bhutan’s first law school, Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law.

John Perona LLM ’16, is Professor of Environmental Biochemistry at Portland State University.

Juliane L. Fry MSL ’16 is Associate Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies at Reed College.

Samuel Panarella ’98 is Associate Professor and Director of the Max S. Baucus Institute at the University of Montana Alexander Blewett III School of Law. He teaches Renewable Energy Law, Business Law, and Contract Law.

Daniel H. Cole ’86 is a Professor of Law and of Public and Environmental Affairs; Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow; Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science at Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

Barbara Cosens LLM ’02 is Professor of Law in the Waters of the West program at the University of Idaho Law School, where she teaches and writes on water law and policy and on interdisciplinary methods in water resources.

Kristen Fletcher LLM ’98, is a faculty Associate-Research in the Energy Academic Group at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and leads the NPS Climate and Security Network (CSN). Formerly served as Executive Director of the Coastal States Organization, representing the environmental interests of the governors of 35 coastal states in Congress.

Robin Kundis Craig ’96 is the James I. Farr Presidential Endowed Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law in Salt Lake City, Utah. Robin specializes in all things water, including the relationships between climate change and water; the water-energy-food nexus; the Clean Water Act, the intersection of water issues and land issues; ocean and coastal law; marine biodiversity and marine protected areas; water law; and the relationships between environmental law and public health.

Arlene Kwasniak LLM ’92 is Professor Emerita of Law at the University of Calgary in the province of Alberta, Canada, where she teaches and writes on natural resources, municipal, environmental, sustainability and conservation law and policy.

Park Tae Hyun LLM, Assistant Professor of Environmental Law at Kangwon University in Chuncheon, Republic of Korea.

Kalyani Robbins LLM, is a Professor of Environmental Law at Loyola University Chicago.

Mitsuhiko Takahashi is an Associate Professor of Environmental Law at Toyama University in Japan.

William Shobe ’80 is a Professor of Public Policy; Adjunct Professor of Economics; Director, Center for Economic and Policy Studies, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at University of Virginia.

Vivian Fernandes LLM ’15 is Manager of the International Compliance Policy with the Australian Fisheries Management Authority.

David Marín Cortés LLM ’15 is the first Executive Director of the Secretariat for Environmental Enforcement Matters (SEEM) under the Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA) between the United States and Colombia.

Alexander Acosta LLM ’17 is an attorney with Macias Gomez & Asociados Abogados in Bogata, Colombia.

Stephen Yates LLM ’16 is an Associate Director, Tax Litigation, Advisory, and Settlement, at Deloitte.

Harsh Bhati LLM ’16, joined the Office of Additional Advocate General of the State of Rajasthan as Legal Counsel in Jaipur, India. He represents the Rajasthan Government in the Rajasthan High Court, Bench Jaipur on cases related to Departments of Forest, Mining, Environment, Petroleum, Planning, Law & Justice, Administrative Reforms, Statistics, and Finance. PhD candidate in Environmental Law (Faculty of Law, Uppsala University).

Tanya Sanerib ’02 is International Legal Director and Senior Attorney for Center for Biological Diversity’s International Program to protect imperiled species and biological diversity worldwide.

Carl Bruch ’96 is the Senior Attorney and Co-Director of International Programs for the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. where he draws upon his extensive experience internationally in helping countries develop and implement laws, policies, and institutional frameworks to effectively manage water resources, biodiversity, forests, and other natural resources.

Alice Stroud LLM ’96 runs the Africa Policy and Capacity Program of the Born Free Foundation.

Samuel D. Rauch III ’94 is Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs for International Fisheries for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Takamichi Sekine, LLM ’91, is a professor at the School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, where he teaches courses in the areas of Environmental Law, Comparative Environmental Law, Environmental Assessment. He is also legal adviser for Japan’s largest environmental organization, the Nature Conservation Society of Japan, and a member of the Environmental Center of the Japan Bar Association. He has pioneered ground-breaking environmental public interest litigation in Japan.