- Pro bono ambassador – Atlanta office, Troutman Pepper Locke
- Steering Committee – Georgia Environmental Conference
- Member, Environmental Law Section, State Bar of Georgia
- Elder, First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta
- Sustainer, Junior League of Atlanta
- Young Men’s Service League – Philanthropy Committee
- Environmental management analyst, AER*X, 1990-1992
Education
- Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 1995, associate editor, Vanderbilt Law Review, Order of the Coif
- Duke University, B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1990
Bar Admissions
- Georgia
Court Admissions
- Court of Appeals of Georgia
- Supreme Court of Georgia
- U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
- Speaker, “Legal and Practical Implications from New and Anticipated Air Regulations,” Annual Georgia Environmental Conference 2025, August 20, 2025.
- Speaker, “Greenwashing: Risks and Best Practices,” Corporate Environmental Enforcement Council, December 2024.
- Speaker, “Clean Air Act Update,” Georgia Environmental Conference, August 2024.
- Speaker, “Perspectives on Navigating Climate-Related Disclosures,” Georgia Environmental Conference, August 2024.
- Speaker, “Greenwashing in the Utility Sector: Risks and Best Practices,” CLE to PSEG, August 2024.
- Speaker, Annual Georgia Environmental Conference, August 21-23, 2024.
- Speaker, “The Rise in Greenwashing Claims,” Energy Law Insights, March 6, 2024.
- Speaker, “Minor Source Permitting – Now and What’s Next,” Georgia Environmental Conference, August 2023.
- Speaker, Tennessee Environmental Conference, October 2021.
- Speaker, “Finding Certainty in Uncertain Times,” Troutman Pepper Webinar, February 24, 2021.
- Instructor, Managing Environmental Compliance Course, Georgia Institute of Technology, semiannually.
- “Clean Air Act Update,” Tennessee Environmental Conference, March 2018.
- Co-author, “CARB Workshop on Climate Disclosure Laws: More Questions Than Answers,” Environmental Law and Policy Monitor, June 3, 2025.
- Co-author, “Court Order Hobbles Challenge to California’s Climate Disclosure Laws,” Environmental Law and Policy Monitor, February 7, 2025.
- Co-author, “Recent Executive Action May Impact PFAS Regulation,” Troutman Pepper Locke, February 3, 2025.
- Co-author, “CARB Solicits Public Input on Greenhouse Gas and Climate Risk Disclosure Laws,” Troutman Pepper, December 17, 2024.
- Co-author, “California Offers Enforcement Relief on GHG Disclosures,” Troutman Pepper, December 12, 2024.
- Co-author, “California Proposes Significant Changes to Product Packaging Regulations,” Environmental Law and Policy Monitor, October 15, 2024.
- Co-author, “California Law Highlights the Need to Prepare for Climate Disclosures,” Troutman Pepper, October 14, 2024.
- Co-author, “SEC Issues Final Climate Disclosure Rules, Paring Down Its 2022 Proposal, With Implications for Greenwashing Claims,” Environmental Law and Policy Monitor, March 13, 2024.
- Co-author, “EPA Lowers Annual PM2.5 NAAQS, With Immediate Impacts for Air Permitting,” Environmental Law and Policy Monitor, February 26, 2024.
- Co-author, “And so It Begins…EPA Issues First Disapproval of Regional Haze Round Two,” Environmental Law and Policy Monitor, January 17, 2024.
- Co-author, “The Clean Energy Transition Is Here — and So Are Greenwashing Claims,” Utility Dive, December 15, 2023.
- Co-author, “California Adopts Landmark GHG Emissions and Climate Risk Reporting Laws, Eclipsing Anticipated Federal Requirements,” Troutman Pepper, October 16, 2023.
- Co-author, “EPA’s New Carbon Standards for Power Plants Require Quick Decisions,” Environmental Law and Policy Monitor, May 23, 2023.
- Co-author, “Are We There Yet? The Challenges of Litigating Clean Air Act Rules,” American Bar Association’s Natural Resources & Environment, Summer 2021.
- Co-author, “FERC Proposes Significant Changes to Dam Safety Regulations in Wake of Michigan Dam Failures,” Hydro Leader, October 2020.
- Co-author, “Air Regulation in 2017: The Trump Administration Begins,” 33 Natural Gas & Electricity 7, February 2017.
- Author, “Bad Actor Statutes: An Environmental Trojan Horse?” 48 Vanderbilt Law Review 771, April 1995.