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PEEL Alumni Profiles
Amy Antoniolli is the assistant attorney to Member Nicholas
J. Melas of the Illinois Pollution Control Board. In the area of Illinois
environmental law, she advises Board Member Melas on both quasi-judicial
and quasi-legislative matters before the Board; she also acts as a hearing
officer during environmental rulemakings assigned to Member Melas. She
is the legislative liason to the Environment & Energy Committee, Young
Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association. During law school at Chicago-Kent,
she interned at the National Wildlife Federation, Great Lakes Natural
Resource Center and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region V
and she was a member of the environmental law moot court team. Amy received
her B.S. in Ecology, Ethology, & Evolution from the University of
Illinois at Champaign in 1997 and her J.D. from Chicago-Kent in 2000.
Meredith Dahl is in the Natural Resource Division and
the Pollution Control Team of the Office of General Counsel of the United
States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington, DC. In this position,
she specializes in the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, FIFRA, the Endangered
Species Act and other issues related to toxics affecting the U.S. Forest
Service and the Natural Resource Conservation Service (agencies of the
USDA). Prior to entering this position, she interned at the U.S. EPA,
the U.S. Department of Justice, and the White House Counsel on Environmental
Quality. She also authored “The Federal Regulation of Waste from
Cruise Ships in U.S. Waters.” Meredith received her B.A. from Miami
University of Ohio in 1997, her J.D. from Chicago-Kent in 2000, and her
LL.M. in Environmental Law from George Washington University in 2003.
Cameron Davis is the Executive Director of the Lake
Michigan Federation. Prior to starting as Executive Director, he was a
litigating attorney and served as an adjunct clinical professor at the
University of Michigan Law School. He also served with the United Nations
Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya, and U.S. EPA’s Office of
Regional Counsel in Chicago. Cameron graduated from Boston University
in 1986, and received his J.D. from Chicago-Kent in 1992.
Holly Gordon is a staff attorney at Communities for
a Better Environment in northern California. Her responsibilities at CBE
are focused primarily on urban environmental legal issues. She was formerly
a staff attorney at the Chicago Environmental Law Clinic. She also served
as the Assistant Director of the Program in Environmental and Energy Law
(PEEL) at Chicago-Kent as well as an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern
University School of Law co-teaching an Environmental Law Survey course
and an Environmental Law seminar. Prior to engaging in non-profit environmental
work, she was an associate at Jones Day’s Chicago office where she
worked on a mixture of general litigation and environmental compliance
and litigation issues. She received a B.A. in Economics from Washington
University in St. Louis in 1995 and her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College
of Law in 1999.
Michael Partee is an Assistant Attorney General with
the Environmental Enforcement Division of the Illinois Attorney General’s
office. In this position, he has represented the Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency and other state agencies in numerous, multimedia enforcement
cases in state and federal court and before the Illinois Pollution Control
Board. His prosecutions involve all aspects of civil and administrative
environmental enforcement. Prior to entering law school, he worked as
an environmental scientist at Dames & Moore and then at Horizon Environmental
Corporation. Michael received his B.S. in Biology from the University
of Michigan in 1993 and a J.D. from Chicago-Kent in 1999.
Steven J. Murawski is a Partner at Baker & McKenzie LLP who practices environmental law. He has notable experience representing clients facing complex Clean Air Act and RCRA permitting, compliance and enforcement issues. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Murawski served as Assistant Regional Counsel in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Region 5 Office in Chicago. He received his J.D. from Chicago-Kent in 1997.
Richard Saines is an environmental law associate at
Baker & McKenzie. In the area of Domestic Environmental Law, he specializes
in major project due diligence in the oil & gas and power sectors
and also advises clients on regulatory matters, compliance counseling
and environmental litigation under the Clean Air Act, CERCLA, Clean Water
Act and RCRA. He advises multinational companies, multilateral institutions
and governments in the area of International Environmental Law, including
opportunities for carbon emissions trading consistent with the principles
of the Kyoto Protocol. He heads Baker & McKenzie’s U.S. Renewable
Energy Practice Group. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles
on international environmental law, climate change and greenhouse gas
emission trading.
He provided pro bono assistance to the Chicago Environmental Law Clinic
in drafting a Model Wind Farm Siting Ordinance for Illinois. He coaches
Chicago-Kent’s environmental law moot court team. He is the founding
co-chair and organizer of the 2001 Illinois Environmental Conference,
held at Chicago-Kent. He was formerly an environmental law associate at
Gardner, Carton & Douglas. Rick received his B.S. from Miami University
of Ohio in 1991 and his J.D. from Chicago-Kent in 1996.
R. Seth Shippee is an Assistant State's Attorney with
the Environment and Energy Division of the Cook County State's Attorney's
Office. In the course of his duties, Seth enforces environmental and public
health laws through criminal prosecutions and civil enforcement actions.
Prior to joining the State's Attorney's Office, he interned with the Environmental
Law and Policy Center, the Illinois Commerce Commission, and the Environment
and Energy Division of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. While
a student at Chicago-Kent, he participated in the Environmental Law Clinic
and was a member of the Environmental Law Moot Court Team. Seth received
his J.D. from Chicago-Kent in 2002.
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