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E. Donald Elliott
Biography
[EPA press release - September 28, 1989]
President Bush has announced his intention to nominate E. Donald Elliott to be General Counsel of the Environmental Protection Agency. The General Counsel is EPA's top lawyer. He will manage a legal staff of over 200 in Washington and 10 regional offices.
"Don Elliott is a nationally recognized environmental law expert with strong litigation experience. He will be a tremendous asset to the Agency as we aggressively pursue the President's strong environmental agenda," EPA Administrator William K. Reilly said.
Elliott has been a law professor at Yale Law School since 1981 and has also taught at the Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Chicago Law School. He has lectured and written extensively on environmental law.
From 1976-1980, he was an associate with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Leva, Hawes, Symington, Martin, and Oppenheimer. From 1974 to 1975, he served as clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Gerhard Gesell and from 1975-1976 to U.S. Circuit Court Judge David Bazelon.
He has been a University Fellow of Resources for the Future, a consultant to the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government, the Federal Courts Study Committee and the Administrative Conference of the United States, and serves as Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association Administrative Law Section's Committee on Separation of Powers.
Elliott is a 1970 graduate of Yale University and received his law degree in 1974 from the Yale Law School.
He is a native of Evansville, Ind. He is married to Mary Ellen Savage, a medical student at Yale. They have two children, Eve and Ian.