Earlier this week, Lois J. Schiffer was named to the post of chief counsel for NOAA. Attorney Schiffer served as Assistant Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division in the Clinton Administration.
According to her DoJ biography, "her goals as AAG included better developing the Division's environmental crimes program and improving relationships with U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the states. A review and restructuring of the Department's environmental crimes program occupied much of Schiffer's first years as AAG."
In the private sector, she has worked for the Audubon Society, as a partner at Baach Robinson & Lewis, and as general counsel for the National Capital Planning Commission. She is an adjunct professor of environmental law at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Schiffer, born on February 22, 1945, graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in the District of Columbia, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1966 and Harvard Law School in 1969.
Her complete bio and career summary is available on the Department of Justice website.