EDUCATION
Boston College Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1979
Honors: Cum Laude
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1976
B.A., Bachelor of Arts
Honors: Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Major: Economics
BAR ADMISSIONS
Michigan, 1981
Wisconsin, 1979
Ohio, 2000
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1979
U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan, 1981
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, 1989
U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1989
U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 2007
U.S. Supreme Court, 2012
HONORS AND AWARDS
Selected for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America and named by Best Lawyers in 2012, 2016, 2018 and 2020 as Grand Rapids' Environmental Litigation Lawyer of the Year
Selected for inclusion in Michigan Super Lawyers
Awarded the Grand Rapids Business Journal Legal Newsmaker of the Year for 2015
Selected as a Leading Lawyer in 2018 for commercial litigation, environmental law, mineral and natural resource law and toxic torts defense law
Selected for inclusion in Grand Rapids Magazine's 2019 Top Lawyers