Donald C. Baur is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Perkins Coie. He previously has served as general counsel of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission and as an attorney advisor in the Office of the Solicitor for the U.S. Department of the Interior, where he served in the office’s Honors Program. He graduated with highest honors from Trinity College and from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. Baur is on the summer faculty of the Vermont Law School, where he has taught ocean and coastal law since 1997. He also taught federal wildlife law at the Golden Gate School of Law and serves as cochair of the American Law Institute/Environmental Law Institute Conference on Species Protection and the Law and as an instructor in the Environmental Law Institute’s Environmental Boot Camp. He is vice chair of the Book Publications Committee of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, and he has served with Wm. Robert Irvin as coeditor of the ABA’s book Endangered Species Act: Law, Policy, and Perspectives (2002). Baur has published over 40 law review and similar publications, many of which concern the marine environment. He received grants from the Turner Foundation to prepare a legal analysis, through the World Wildlife Fund, of marine protected areas (published with Wm. Robert Irvin and Darren Misenko in the Vermont Law Review) and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, through the Center for Future of the Oceans of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, for a legal analysis of marine ecosystem–based management (Chapter 21 of this book). He is a member of the Environmental Leadership Council of the Environmental Law Institute, and serves at the Boards of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation and Shenandoah National Park Trust.
Tim Eichenberg is an environmental lawyer and a member of the summer faculty at the Vermont Law School. He is the former Chief Counsel of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission and has served as legal counsel for the California Coastal Commission, the Ocean Conservancy, Oceana, and Environmental Defense Center. He chaired the Clean Water Network in Washington, D.C., cofounded the Casco Baykeeper Program in Maine, and authored more than 30 articles and reports on environmental issues. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Earlham College, a JD from the Washington University School of Law, and postdoctoral fellowship in marine policy at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Georgia Hancock Snusz is general counsel to the Animal Welfare Institute in Washington, D.C., a nonprofit organization dedicated to alleviating animal suffering caused by humans. In addition to directing institutional legal matters, Hancock Snusz works in each of Animal Welfare Institute’s program areas, including wildlife, marine life, farm animals, animals in laboratories, and companion animals, as well as with its legislative team. She frequently coordinates with outside counsel on various litigation and advocacy issues. She graduated with a concentration in environmental law from SUNY Buffalo Law School, where she served as executive editor of the Buffalo Environmental Law Journal. She previously worked for the Environment, Energy, and Resources practice in the Washington, D.C., office of Perkins Coie and for the public policy firm of Morgan, Angel & Associates. She holds a bachelor’s degree from James Madison University, where she majored in history. She is a member of the District of Columbia, Virginia, and South Carolina Bars.
Michael Sutton is a social entrepreneur and conservation leader who currently serves as vice president, Pacific Flyway, with the National Audubon Society. He serves as a member of Audubon’s National Leadership Team and oversees Audubon’s conservation programs, including a $20 million budget and more than 100 professional staff in California, Washington, and Alaska. Previously, Sutton served for eight years as vice president of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where he founded the Center for the Future of the Oceans, the Aquarium’s conservation advocacy arm. Before that, he helped establish ocean conservation programs at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the World Wildlife Fund, where he founded the Marine Stewardship Council based in London. He currently serves as chairman of the Wild Salmon Center and COMPASS in Portland, Oregon and as a board member of Ocean Champions. Sutton also serves on the advisory boards of the Ocean Foundation, the Sea Change Investment Fund, the Vermont Law School’s Environmental Law Program, and LightHawk. Before joining the World Wildlife Fund staff, he spent more than a decade in government service, where he served as a special agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and as a park ranger with the National Park Service in Yosemite, Yellowstone, Biscayne, and Virgin Islands National Parks and Death Valley National Monument. In 2007 and again in 2009, Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Sutton as a member of the California Fish and Game Commission. He was elected president of the commission in early 2013. He also serves as summer faculty at the Vermont Law School, where he teaches ocean and coastal law. Sutton received a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Utah State University in 1978 and pursued graduate studies in marine biology at the University of Sydney, Australia. In 1992, he received a law degree in international and natural resources law from George Washington University’s National Law Center in Washington, D.C. In 2013, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Utah State University.
