Brenda Mallory (public official)

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Brenda Mallory
Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality
Incumbent
Assumed office
April 14, 2021
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byMary Neumayr
General Counsel of the Environmental Protection Agency
Acting
In office
January 4, 2013 – August 6, 2013
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byScott Fulton[1]
Succeeded byAvi Garbow
Personal details
Born (1957-09-14) September 14, 1957 (age 67)
Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.
EducationYale University (BA)
Columbia University (JD)

Brenda Mallory (born September 14, 1957)[2] is an American lawyer specializing in environmental law who is the current chair of the Council on Environmental Quality in the Biden administration. She previously served as director of regulatory policy at the Southern Environmental Law Center,[3] and helped lead the Climate 21 Project.

Mallory served as general counsel for the Council on Environmental Quality in the Obama administration.

  1. ^ Current and Former EPA General Counsels
  2. ^ Hubbell, Martindale (2000). Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory: District of Columbia, U.S. Government Lawyers, State Bar Association Profiles, Law Schools (Volume 5). Martindale-Hubbell. ISBN 9781561603763.
  3. ^ "Brenda Mallory". www.eli.org. Environmental Law Institute. 1 February 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2020.