Admitted
1980, Colorado and U.S. District Court, District of Colorado; 1988, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1988, Montana; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
Law School
Vanderbilt University, J.D., 1980
Law School Graduation Year
1980
College
State University of New York at Buffalo, B.A., summa cum laude, 1976
Memberships
Denver, Colorado (Member, Sections on: Environmental Law; Litigation) and American (Member, Sections on: Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law; Litigation) Bar Associations; State Bar of Montana.
Biographical
Phi Eta Sigma; Phi Beta Kappa. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Property I. Author: Restoration of Injured Natural Resources Under CERCLA, 1998; Natural Resource Damage Provisions Under CERCLA and the Oil Pollution Act, 1992; Recovery of Natural Resource Damages Under CERCLA, 1990. Co-Author: Natural Resource Damages: Law and Economics, J. Wiley, 1992; Private Party Response Cost Recovery Under CERCLA, 1991; Natural Resource Damages: Recovery Under State Law Compared With Federal Laws, 1990. Law Clerk to the Honorable Daniel J. Shannon, Chief Judge, First Judicial District of Colorado, 1980-1981. Assistant Attorney General, CERCLA Litigation Section, Office of Colorado Attorney General, 1985-1988. Special Assistant Attorney General, State of Montana, 1988—.