Careers and Alumni

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

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

Vartan Badalian ’18, EV100 Program Manager for North America, The Climate Group

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

Rachel Briggs ’18, Staff Attorney, formally Legal Fellow, Trustees for Alaska

Sami Godlove MSL ’23, Field Associate at Oregon Wild.

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

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

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

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

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

Brandon Kline JD ’15, LLM ’16, is Deputy Attorney General at CA Department of Justice. Previously he was Associate Director Environmental Programs, San Diego State University

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.

Jonah Sandford ’15, is a Staff Attorney with the Northwest Environmental Defense Center

Lizzy Potter, JD, LLM, Staff Attorney, Advocates for the West

Adena Leibman ’13 is the Senior Manager, Federal Affairs at Environmental Defense Fund, Washington D.C.

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

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

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

Jenny Loda ’12, Staff Attorney at Center for Food Safety.

Marla Nelson Fox ’12 is a staff attorney with WildEarth Guardians.

Andrew Bowman LLM ’04, is the President of the Land Trust Alliance.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Kacky Andrews is Interim Chief of Strategy for Ocean Conservancy.

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

Kristen Fletcher LLM ’98, is the former Executive Director of the Coastal States Organization, representing the environmental interests of the governors of 35 coastal states in Congress.

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

Steven Kallick ’83, is a Senior Strategist at Resources Legacy Fund.

Joni Sliger ’17, is Energy & Environment Fellow for Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) in Montpelier, Vermont.

Erin Gaines ’11 is Advocacy Manager for KEEN Footwear. Prior to joining KEEN, she worked as Natural Resources Counsel and Legislative Correspondent for the Office of U.S. Senator Ron Wyden.

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.

Carlisle Pearson ’20, is an Associate Attorney at Lane Powell in Portland, Or.

Katrina Krebs ’18 is an 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

William Enoch ’18, is an Associate at Beveridge and Diamond in Seattle, WA

Haley Adams ’17 is an Associate Attorney with Modrall Sperllng in Albuquerque, New Mexico where her practice is focused on energy, water, environmental and natural resources law.

Cameron Jimmo ’16 is an Associate Attorney with Perkins Coie in Anchorage, Alaska where he leverages 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.

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

Stephanie Grant ’15, is an Associate 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.

Matthew Preusch ’13 is an Attorney with 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

Elizabeth Rosso LLM ’14 is a Shareholder with Jordan Ramis and focuses her practice on environmental law. She has experience ith 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.

Kent van Alstyne ’15, joined 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.

Laura Kerr ’14, is an Associate 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.

Kathryn Roberts ’17, Of Counsel II at Markowitz Herbold

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

Nick Lawton ’13, is Senior Associate at Eubanks & Associates, Washington, D.C.

Adrienne Thompson ’13, is an Associate at Troutman Sanders in Portland, Oregon. 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.

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

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.

Paul Conable ’97 is Co-chair of the Litigation Department at Tonkon Torp LLP, representing both individuals and businesses in contract and investment disputes, government investigations and environmental matters.

Jeff Fereday ’80, is a senior practitioner in the natural resources, environmental and energy group at the Boise, Idaho law firm of Givens Pursley LLP, where he represents 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.

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

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

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

James Martin ’81, joined Beatty & Wozniak, P.C. as senior counsel in June of 2013. 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.

Thane W. Tienson ’77 is a partner at Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP, focused on maritime and environmental law, but with extensive experience in employment, personal injury, and administrative law.

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

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

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

Colby Stewart, JD LLM ’16 works for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C.

Morgan Gratz-Weiser MSL ’16, advisor to Oregon Governor Kate Brown on natural resource issues

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

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

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

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

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

Amira Streeter ’13 is a Natural Resources Policy Advisor to Governor Kate Brown ( who is also an LC Law alum)

Leah Feldon, ’04 Deputy Director, Department of Environmental Quality, Oregon

Ed Jewell LLM ’17, is Deputy Attorney General assigned to Public Utilities Commission for the Idaho Attorney General in Boise, Idaho.

Parks Gilbert LLM ’13, is the Endangered Species Act Litigation Specialist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Brad Grenham, 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

Nidhi Thakar ’08, Chief for Strategy and External Affairs, Office of President Picker, California Public Utilities Commission. Previously appointed by Obama Administration as Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of the Loan Programs Office at the U.S. Department of Energy. She has also served as President of the D.C chapter of the Women’s Energy Network, Chair of the Energy Bar Association’s Renewable Energy Committee, and sits on the board for the Center for American Politics and Citizenship

Liv Brumfield ’13, works for Congressman Earl Blumenauer ’76 as his district representative on environmental, natural resources, energy, agriculture, and animal welfare issues. Prior to joining the Congressman’s team, she worked as a staff attorney at Advocates for the West, a public interest environmental law firm, where she focused on cases advocating for protection of public lands and wildlife.

Liz Crosson ’08, joined the LA County Chief Sustainability Office in California and is helping to advance the regional sustainability plan by serving as a resource for cities across Los Angeles County in California.

Jeannie Lee ’08, is Chief Counsel forCalifornia Governor’s Office of Planning and Research. providing legal and technical assistance on a variety of matters related to CEQA, NEPA, climate change, land use, and planning and gives presentations to state and local agencies and the public on CEQA and climate change.

Margi Lifsey (Bradway) ’00, Deputy Director, Metro, Portland, Oregon

Kathryn Kempton LLM ’08, is an Attorney-Advisor at the Southwest Regional office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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

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

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.

Phil Schiliro ’81, joined 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. Currently, he is advising Grow New Mexico, a community development organization, and is Managing Director of Schiliro Barnett, a consulting business that focuses on nonprofit organizations.

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.

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.

Aunnie Steward ’01, was hired by the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., through the honors program in 2003. In 2006, she moved back home to Alaska to work for the U.S. Attorney’s office where she prosecutes environmental crimes under federal environmental laws.

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.

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.