Lajuana Wilcher

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English, Lucas, Priest and Owsley, LLP

Experience: 43 years

Environmental Law and Appeals & Appellate

District of Columbia and Kentucky

State Public Service Award, Gold Medal and 3 others

Awards 5

Experience 43y

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LaJuana Wilcher is a Partner at English Lucas Priest & Owsley LLP (ELPO). She began working with NACWA (then AMSA) in 1989, when she was nominated by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as EPA's Assistant Administrator for Water. In that position, she was responsible for national water policy, and promulgated stormwater, biosolids, and TMDL regulations, among others. She also convened and worked closely with the FACA group that developed the 1994 CSO Policy.

LaJuana worked on environmental law issues in Washington, D.C., for almost 20 years. She was a Partner in the DC offices of Winston & Strawn and LeBoeuf, Lamb Greene and MacRae LLP, where she served as legal counsel for NACWA and numerous municipalities in federal CWA litigation, permitting and enforcement matters. She has also served as a group facilitator, expert witness and legislative counsel on various CWA matters.

Returning to private law practice in her home state of Kentucky in 2002, LaJuana was a partner at ELPO until being tapped by Kentucky's Governor to be Secretary of Kentucky's Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet from 2003-2006, here she orchestrated a novel Consent Decree strategy with Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District.

LaJuana has developed and taught environmental law and policy courses at Vermont Law School and Vanderbilt University Law School. She was awarded NACWA's Special Recognition Award in 1993 and State Public Service Award in 2006. She has been selected as a Lifetime Honorary Member of American Water Works Association and has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America every year since 2009. She speaks frequently throughout the country on environmental law and leadership issues.

LaJuana was a founding Board Member of America's Clean Water Alliance (now the U.S. Water Alliance) and Friends of Mammoth Cave National Park, and is a Supervisor of the Warren County Conservation District.

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

District of Columbia

District of Columbia Bar
Since 1997

Kentucky

Professional Experience

2007 - Current

English, Lucas, Priest and Owsley, LLP

Partner

1983 - Current

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Special Assistant to the General Counsel

2003 - 2006

Kentucky Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet

Secretary

1989 - 1993

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Assistant Administrator for Water

1983 - 1986

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Assistant to the Deputy Administrator and Special Assistant to the General Counsel

Education

1980

Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University

J.D. (1980)

1973 - 1977

Western Kentucky University

B.S. (1977)

Honors: Magna Cum Laude

Awards

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State Public Service Award

National Association of Clean Water Agencies

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Gold Medal

Salmon P. Chase College of Law Alumni Association

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Housing Hero Award

Home Builders Association of Kentucky

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Lifetime Honorary Membership

American Waterworks Association

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English, Lucas, Priest and Owsley, LLP 1101 College Ave. Bowling Green KY 42101 Toll-Free: (270) 781-6500

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Environmental Law

Appeals & Appellate

Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals

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English: Spoken, Written

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