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Amanda R. Garcia
Ms. Garcia joined the firm in 2007 as an environmental law fellow, after clerking for the Honorable Alicemarie H. Stotler, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. She graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif.
While at NYU Law, Ms. Garcia co-founded the NYU Green Arch Initiative, a university-wide advocacy group that helped to make environmental education and sustainability a university priority. Ms. Garcia served as Colloquium Editor for the NYU Environmental Law Journal, and her student note, “The Sage Grouse Debate: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Discourse of the Endangered Species Act,” was published in Volume XIV of the journal. She was co-chair of the Environmental Law Society and a Public Interest Law Peer Mentor. Ms. Garcia worked as a summer law clerk at Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger in 2005, and as a summer law clerk at the Sierra Club Environmental Law Program in 2004.
Before attending law school, Ms. Garcia worked as an environmental educator on an organic farm in the Bay Area, and as a program analyst and grant writer for a nonprofit social service organization in New York City. She graduated from Stanford University, with distinction, earning a B.A. in Comparative Literature.
Ms. Garcia is a member of the bars of the State of California and the United States District Court for the Central District of California.