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Chair: Zachary Ogaz
Past Chair: Kari Olson
Steven Landeros Hernandez | Maslyn Locke | Spenser Lotz | Anne Minard | Yarithza Peña | John Verheul | Julia Shaver
UNM NREEL Student Liaision: Caitlyn Tullar (non-voting)
YLD Liaison: Samantha Catalano
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Where You Work: Modrall Sperling
Area of Practice: Civil Litigation, Natural Resources
Why you enjoy practicing NREEL in New Mexico? I enjoy practicing NREEL in New Mexico because of the opportunity it provides to collaborate on and find solutions to some of New Mexico’s most important challenges and issues.
Where You Work: 2L at University of New Mexico School of Law; Extern at NM PRC
Area of Practice: Energy and Environmental Law
Why you enjoy practicing NREEL in New Mexico? I enjoy being a part of the NREEL community in New Mexico because I am a born and raised New Mexican that has always wanted to preserve the beauty of this state for generations of New Mexicans to come.
Director Where You Work: Office of the State Engineer
Area of Practice: Water Law
Why you enjoy practicing NREEL in New Mexico? I enjoy practicing water law in New Mexico because of the rich history, both legally and scientifically, of water in New Mexico. I have been incredibly fortunate at the Office of the State Engineer to help grow New Mexico water law and to make our state better for future generations!
Where You Work: Faculty at UNM School of Law
Area of Practice: Constitutional rights, environmental law, environmental justice, emergency response
Why you enjoy practicing NREEL in New Mexico? I was born and raised in Albuquerque, grew up camping and fishing in the mountains of northern New Mexico, and much later came to understand and appreciate his family tradition of stewardship tracing back to the Atrisco Land Grant of 1692.
Where You Work: Spencer Fane, Santa Fe
Area of Practice: Water law; environmental law; oil and gas law; civil litigation
Why you enjoy practicing NREEL in New Mexico? New Mexico is a great place to practice. The attorneys that I have had the privilege of practicing with are excellent, and the clients whom I have worked with have a vested interest in protecting the environment and consistently seek to better their practices towards that end.
Where You Work: New Mexico Environment Department
Area of Practice: Water and Environmental Law
Where You Work: Chief Legal Counsel to Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren and Vice-President Richelle Montoya
Area of Practice: Serving the Navajo Nation and its natural resources
Where You Work: Hinkle Shanor LLP
Area of Practice: Oil and Gas, Mineral Title Examination
Where You Work: Sandia National Laboratories
Area of Practice: Intellectual Property (Environmental Technologies), Environmental Law
Where You Work: Solo Practitioner in Mesilla, NM
Where You Work: The New Mexico Environmental Law Center
Where You Work: New Mexico Department of Justice, Environmental Protection Bureau
Where You Work: Minard Law and University of New Mexico School of Law
Where You Work: UNM Utton Transboundary Resources Center
Where You Work: Partner, Susman Godfrey LLP (retired)
Where You Work: Hardy McLean LLC
Where You Work: TXNM Energy