IGS National Advisory Council
CHRISTOPHER J. CARR
Chris Carr is a partner at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP. Based in the firm’s San Francisco office, he is co-chair of the firm’s Land Use and Environmental Group. Mr. Carr represents public agencies, landowners, private individuals, and business concerns in all areas of natural resources law, including energy, water, forestry, agriculture, mining, fisheries, land use, and real property. He specializes in litigation and permitting under the federal Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and their California counterparts.
Prior to going into private practice, Mr. Carr served as Special Assistant to Joseph L. Sax, Counselor to the U.S. Department of Interior Secretary, where he worked on Endangered Species Act reform and public land issues, and as a Fisheries Officer with the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Marine Conservation, where he represented the United States in international fishery and ocean resource negotiations.
Mr. Carr serves on the City of San Francisco’s Clean Technology Advisory Council, the Wine Institute’s Public Policy Committee, the California Forestry Association’s Legal Affairs Committee, and the California Construction and Industrial Materials Association’s Environment Committee.
Mr. Carr received his B.A. (history), J.D., and Ph.D. (jurisprudence and social policy) from UC Berkeley. He has been a lecturer on environmental law at Boalt and has served on UC Berkeley’s Library Advisory Board.
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- Darius Anderson
- William Brandt
- Peter Brightbill
- Stephen Burns
- Kelly Calkin
- Bryan Cameron
- Christopher J. Carr
- David Carrillo
- David Chai
- Darek DeFreece
- David DeGroot
- Pamela S. Duffy
- Bevan Dufty
- Eric George
- Karen Getman
- William E. Grayson
- Peter Hart
- David Howard
- Robert W. Naylor
- Laurence Pelosi
- Dan Pellissier
- Heather Podesta
- Karen Skelton
- Lisa Suennen
- Duf Sundheim
- Susie Swatt
- Kris Van Giesen