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Jeannette M. MacMillan
Jeannette MacMillan joined the firm in 2007 as an environmental law fellow, after completing a clerkship with the Honorable Howard R. Lloyd of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Ms. MacMillan received her law degree in 2006 from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, where she received an environmental law certificate and was elected to the Order of the Coif. She served as an articles editor and associate editor for Ecology Law Quarterly and coordinated that journal’s environmental law careers directory. She also served as treasurer for the Environmental Law Society and advocated for asylum seekers through the California Asylum Representation Clinic. Her student note, “An International Dispute Reveals Weaknesses in Domestic Environmental Law: NAFTA, NEPA, and the Case of Mexican Trucks (Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen),” was published in the 2005 Annual Review issue of Ecology Law Quarterly.
During law school, Ms. MacMillan worked at Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger as a semester law clerk. She spent her law school summers at the California Attorney General’s Office and at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson.
Ms. MacMillan received her undergraduate degree, a B.A. in English, from Yale University in 2002. During college she interned for the International Program at Earthjustice, a national nonprofit environmental law firm. Ms. MacMillan is a member of the California bar.
portraits by Liza Heider