Todd True

Todd True recently retired as a senior attorney and former managing attorney in the Northwest Office of Earthjustice.  Todd was one of two attorneys who opened the office in 1987.  He represented public interest environmental organizations in litigation under federal and state environmental and natural resource laws. He has represented clients before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals and District Courts, and the Washington State appellate and trial courts.  He is a past-president of the Federal Bar Association of the Western District of Washington, served as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, served on the Circuit’s Judicial Conference Executive Committee, and has been a member and Chair of the Circuit’s Lawyer Advisory Board. Todd graduated from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1981, Order of the Coif, and was executive editor of the Oregon Law Review.  He clerked for The Honorable Betty B. Fletcher of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit following graduation.