Background
Watson, Rebecca Wunder was born on February 17, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of David Hart and Shirley May (Dahlin) Wunder.
federal agency administrator lawyer
Watson, Rebecca Wunder was born on February 17, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of David Hart and Shirley May (Dahlin) Wunder.
Bachelor, University Denver, 1974. Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, University Denver, 1975. Juris Doctor, University Denver, 1978.
Worked at Gough, Shanahan, Johnson & Waterman (Helena, Montana) specializing in General Civil and Trial Practice. Litigation, Banking, Corporation, Insurance, Labor, Agriculture, Environmental, Natural Resources, Mining, Probate, Estate and Gift Taxation, Wills and Trust, Administrative, Automobile, Family, Mortgage, Negligence, Real Estate, Utility, Water Rights, Legislative, Education, Product Liability, Workers Compensation, Mineral Taxation Law, Construction, Adoption, International, and Intellectual Property. Admitted to the bar, 1978, Wyoming (inactive).
1989, Colorado.
1995, District of Columbia and Montana. Phi Beta Kappa. Law Clerk to Judge Kerr, United States. District Court, District of Wyoming, 1978-1980.
Author: 2 The Natural Resources Law Manual(1995).
"Ecosystem Management, A Natural Resources Environment 42 (Winter 1995). "Expert Testimony on New Age," Number: The Use of Contingent Valuation Methodology to Assess Natural Resource Damages, Prentice-Hall (1994).
"History of Territorial Federal Judges for the Territory of Wyoming, 1869-1890," XVII Land and Water Review 567 (1982). Assistant General Counsel for Energy Policy, 1990-1993, United States.
Department of Energy.
Member, Wyoming Commission on Women, 1987-1988. Member: American Bar Association (Chair, Natural Resources Committee, 1994. Vice-Chair, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, 1995.
Member, Sections of: Natural Resources.
Energy; Environmental Law). Fellow, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (Member, Special Institutes Committee).
The firm was founded in 1887, as the firm of Toole & Toole and is probably the oldest continuously existing law firm in the state. The firm conducts a state-wide general civil and trial practice, and specializes in commercial and construction litigation, insurance defense, natural resources, mining, environmental permitting and labor law.
The firm also provides estate planning and probate services and has an active administrative law and governmental relations department which is the Montana Representative of the State Capitol Law Firm Group.
Member, Wyoming Commission on Women, 1987-1988. Member: American Bar Association (Chair, Natural Resources Committee, 1994. Vice-Chair, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, 1995.
Member, Sections of: Natural Resources.
Energy; Environmental Law). Fellow, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (Member, Special Institutes Committee).
Fellow, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (Member, Special Institutes Committee).
Married Keith C. Thomson, October 6, 1979 (divorced December 1989). Married Gregory B. Watson, January 20, 1996.