About
LaJuana Wilcher is a Partner at English Lucas Priest & Owsley LLP (ELPO). She commenced running with NACWA (then AMSA) in 1989, when she become nominated with the aid of the President and confirmed via the U.S. Senate to serve as EPA s Assistant Administrator for Water. In that position, she changed into answerable for country wide water policy, and promulgated stormwater, biosolids, and TMDL guidelines, among others. She additionally convened and worked closely with the FACA group that advanced the 1994 CSO Policy.
LaJuana labored on environmental regulation troubles in Washington, D.C., for almost 20 years. She was a Partner in the DC places of work of Winston & Strawn and LeBoeuf, Lamb Greene and MacRae LLP, wherein she served as felony recommend for NACWA and numerous municipalities in federal CWA litigation, permitting and enforcement subjects. She has also served as a collection facilitator, expert witness and legislative suggest on diverse CWA topics.
Returning to personal law exercise in her home kingdom of Kentucky in 2002, LaJuana become a companion at ELPO until being tapped through Kentucky s Governor to be Secretary of Kentucky s Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet from 2003-2006, here she orchestrated a unique Consent Decree method with Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District.
LaJuana has evolved and taught environmental law and coverage courses at Vermont Law School and Vanderbilt University Law School. She was awarded NACWA s Special Recognition Award in 1993 and State Public Service Award in 2006. She has been selected as a Lifetime Honorary has club of American Water Works Association and has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America every yr due to the fact 2009. She speaks regularly all through the u . s . a . on environmental law and leadership issues.
LaJuana became a founding Board has club of America s Clean Water Alliance (now the U.S. Water Alliance) and Friends of Mammoth Cave National Park, and is a Supervisor of the Warren County Conservation District.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Environmental Law
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
Costs
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Retaines and Rates
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Certificates
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Partner
English, Lucas, Priest and Owsley, LLP
2007 - Special Assistant to the General Counsel
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1983 - Secretary
Kentucky Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet
2003 - Assistant Administrator for Water
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1989 - Assistant to the Deputy Administrator and Special Assistant to the General Counsel
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1983
Educations
Graduation year: 1980
Graduation year: 1973
