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Rod Brown is managing partner of Seattle-based Cascadia Law Group PLLC, where he and his colleagues focus their practice exclusively on Pacific Northwest environmental law. Brown has practiced environmental law in our region for more than 20 years.
Brown began his environmental practice at Riddell Williams from 1983 to 1992; there, he became partner in charge of the environmental group. From 1992 to 1996, Brown was a managing partner in the Seattle office of the large international law firm Morrison & Foerster LLP, where he was a member of the firm's Land Use & Environmental Law group. In February 1996, Brown left Morrison & Foerster to found the firm that became Cascadia Law Group. Brown is the principal author of Washington's Superfund law, the Model Toxics Control Act.
Brown received his juris doctor from University of Texas School of Law and a bachelor of arts in political science from Baylor University. After law school, Brown clerked for Judge Homer Thornberry of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1981 and 1982.
He currently serves as a member of Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire's Expert Review Panel for the SR 520 Bridge & Alaskan Way Viaduct projects, and in the Washington Department of Ecology Director's Regulatory Performance Advisory Group. Brown serves on the boards of Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center and the Washington Environmental Council, and recently completed a term as president of the Board of Trustees for the Northwest Fund for the Environment. He lives in Seattle.
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