Gary A. Davis is an environmental attorney and consultant with over 27 years of experience in environmental law, policy, and technology. Most recently he was the Director of Environmental Policy for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, a 40-year old regional environmental organization based in Naples, Florida. He directed the Conservancy’s advocacy efforts in a five-county area of Southwest Florida focusing on estuaries and coastal watersheds protection, land use policy, wildlife habitat conservation, and Everglades restoration. Prior to joining the Conservancy in June 2002, he practiced public interest environmental law in Tennessee, North Carolina and other Southeastern states for over 19 years. He founded an office of the Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation in Tennessee in 1983 and founded an environmental research center at the University of Tennessee in 1992, which he directed until 2002, called the Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies, focused on technologies and policies for sustainable development. He has also taught environmental law as an adjunct professor in the UT College of Law and taught environmental policy as a visiting professor in the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University in Sweden. Mr. Davis was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Tennessee Environmental Council, a statewide coalition, in 1991. Mr. Davis also has government experience and worked as an environmental policy analyst in the California Governor’s Office of Appropriate Technology in the early 1980s. Prior to attending law school, he worked as an environmental engineer with an environmental consulting firm that focused on pollution prevention in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. He has been widely published and speaks nationally and internationally on environmental topics. Davis earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Cincinnati.
Tennessee, North Carolina and California (inactive status).
