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Gabriel M.B. Ross
Gabriel Ross joined the firm as an environmental law fellow in 2004. Before joining the firm, he clerked in Charleston, West Virginia for Judge M. Blane Michael of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and in Anchorage for Justice Dana Fabe of the Alaska Supreme Court. He graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law in 2002.
At NYU Law, Mr. Ross was managing editor of the Law Review and editor-in-chief of The Commentator, the law school’s biweekly newspaper. On graduating, he was inducted into the Order of the Coif and awarded the Arthur G. Vanderbilt Medal for Service to the Law School.
During law school, Mr. Ross was a summer law clerk at Earthjustice’s Juneau, Alaska office, where he worked on both state and federal cases, including NEPA and state public lands matters. He also worked at Relman and Associates, a small civil rights law firm in Washington, D.C., and in New York City’s Corporation Counsel office.
Before law school, Mr. Ross worked in radio and print journalism. He spent two years at the D.C. headquarters of National Public Radio. The following year, he split his time between reporting for the High Country News, a newspaper covering environmental issues throughout the West, and producing Radio High Country News, a public radio program based on the paper. Mr. Ross graduated in 1996 from Swarthmore College. He spent two summers during college on firefighting crews for the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service. He is presently a senior editor at The Next American City, a new magazine of urban issues.
Mr. Ross is a member of the Bars of the State of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.