Background
Pendergrass, John A. was born on March 23, 1954 in Florence, Alabama, United States.
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John A. Pendergrass
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Michigan State University (Bachelor of Science with highest honors, 1976). Case Western Reserve University (Juris Doctor, 1979). Spoken languages: Portuguese.
Career
Admitted to the bar, 1979, Ohio. 1983, Wisconsin (Not admitted District of Columbia). Phi Kappa Phi; Order of the Coif.
Associate and Editor, Case Western Reserve University Law Review, 1977-1979.
Company-Author: With James McElfish and Philip Warburg, "Property: Past, Present, Future," The Environmental Forum, September/October, 1996. With Paul Locke and James McElfish, "The Environment and the Contract," Environmental Law Reporter, July 1995, Volume XXV.
With Larry McBride, "Coal," Chapter in Sustainable Environmental Law, 1993. With James McElfish, "Learning from the States," The Environmental Forum, November/December 1993.
Company-Author: "Beyond Compliance: A Call for Environmental Protection Agency Recognition of Voluntary Efforts to Reduce Pollution, "Environmental Law Reporter, June 1991, Volume XXI.
With Paul G. Kent, "Has NEPA Become A Dead Issue? Preliminary Results of a Comprehensive Study of NEPA Litigation," 5 Temporary Envir. L. & Technology J. 11 (1986). Author: "Use of Institutional Controls as Participant of a Superfund Remedy: Lessons from Other Programs," Environmental Law Reporter, March 1996, Volume XXXVI.
"Rediscovering Old Tools," The Environmental Forum, May/June 1993.
"Around the States," column in The Environmental Forum, volumes 8-14 (1991). "Justice Foreign All - Reducing Costs and Delay in Civil Litigation," Report of a Task Force, (member of Task Force), Mark Gitenstein and Robert Litan, staff reporters, The Brookings Institution (1989).
"Coal Mining on Federal Lands," 2 National Resources & Envir. J. 14 (Spring 1986). Lecturer, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, 1993 and 1995.
Attorney-Advisor, Office of the Solicitor, Division of Surface Mining, United States.
Department of the Interior, 1979-1984. Associate, DeWitt, Sundby, Huggett, Schumacher & Morgan, South Carolina (U.S.), Madison, Wisconsin, 1984-1986. Visiting Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1986-1988.
Senior Attorney, Director, Center for State, Local and Regional Environmental Programs, Environmental Law Institute, 1988.
Member, National Research Council Study Committee on Hazardous Wastes in Highway Right of Way, 1990-1993. Member, Brookings Task Force on Civil Justice Reform, 1988-1989.
Member: State Bar of Wisconsin (Member, Section on Environmental Law).
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Membership
Member, National Research Council Study Committee on Hazardous Wastes in Highway Right of Way, 1990-1993. Member, Brookings Task Force on Civil Justice Reform, 1988-1989. Member: State Bar of Wisconsin (Member, Section on Environmental Law).
