The Environmental Law Institute® has announced the recent election of six new Directors to its Board of Directors. The new members themselves are a diverse group of international and domestic lawyers and environmental practitioners from government, the private bar, citizen organizations, and business.
“These distinguished individuals bring a wealth and breadth of experience to ELI,” said ELI President Bill Futrell. “Each in his or her own way will help us build a stronger, more effective organization.”
Lynn L. Bergeson is a founder and shareholder of Bergeson & Campbell, P.C., a Washington, DC. law firm that assists clients in obtaining regulatory agency approval of their chemical, medical device, and diagnostic products and regulation, litigation, and business issues associated with those products. She is widely published and recent works include The TSCA Basic Practice Book, ABA, The FIFRA Basic Practice Book, ABA, and the Pesticides Law Handbook, Government Institutes. She serves as Vice Chair for the Special Committee on Agricultural Management and Special Committee on Pesticides, Chemical Regulation, and Right-to-Know for ABA, is a member of many environmental and law associations including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and The Environmental Corporate Counsel, and is founding Member and National Chair of The Society of Women Environmental Professionals.
Christopher H. Buckley Jr., is Partner-in-Charge of the Environment and Natural Resources Practice Group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He has been involved in some of the largest and most significant toxic tort cases ever litigated and has broad general commercial litigation experience. Mr. Buckley is admitted to practice before the District of Columbia Bar and the United States Supreme Court and is a member of the District of Columbia, Federal and American Bar Associations. He has overseen numerous environmental audit, negotiation and litigation projects and is a frequent lecturer and author on environmental regulatory programs and litigation topics.
Gustavo Alanis Ortega is the founder and President of the Mexican Environmental Law Center (Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental), an NGO that seeks to improve enforcement and compliance of environmental laws and generate greater public awareness of environmental problems. Since January 1994 to date he has been a professor of environmental law at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) Law School and has been Co-Director since 1999 of the UIA’s Diploma in Environmental Law and Policy. He is a member of the Program Advisory Board of the International Center on Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights, and the Convention on Biodiversity Diversity of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In addition, Mr. Alanis is a columnist for the Reforma newspaper in Mexico City on topics related to environmental law and education.
John E. Huerta is General Counsel at the Smithsonian Institution. He has extensive experience in civil rights litigation, having served as Counsel for the Western Center on Law & Poverty and Associate Counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund. He was Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice from 1977-1980 and a partner at the firm Gronemeier, Barker & Huerta, where he represented clients in intellectual property and civil rights matters. He is admitted to practice before the California and U.S. Supreme Courts and belongs to numerous professional associations. In addition, he has played an active role on the committees and boards of community organizations, such as National Council of La Raza and the Affordable Housing Commission of Los Angeles.
Susan Moore is Vice President of Environmental Affairs at Georgia-Pacific Corporation, responsible for establishing and implementing corporate environmental policy, managing environmental regulatory affairs and providing environmental engineering services to over 300 North American and European manufacturing facilities. She has spent over thirty years working professionally in the environme