Ann Carlson | |
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| Administrator the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | |
Acting | |
| In office September 12, 2022 – December 26, 2023 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Steven Cliff |
| Succeeded by | Sophie Shulman (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) |
| Education | University of California, Santa Barbara (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Law |
| Sub-discipline | Environmental law Environmental policy Climate change Environmental federalism |
| Institutions | UCLA School of Law |
Ann E. Carlson (born 1960) is an American attorney and legal scholar who served as the acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from September 2022 to December 2023. Before joining the Biden administration, Carlson was the Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law at the UCLA School of Law, where she also served as faculty co-director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment.[1][2] She is an expert on U.S. environmental law and policy with a particular focus on climate change and environmental federalism.[1] Biden administration withdrew her from nomination in May 2023.
- ^ a b "Ann E. Carlson". UCLA School of Law. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
- ^ "Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment". UCLA School of Law. Archived from the original on February 20, 2014. Retrieved February 9, 2014.