| Rock the Earth Advisory Board Member Robert "Bob"
Lippman currently serves on the Castle Valley (Utah) Town Council.
Over the course of a 25-year career, Bob has been an attorney,
a college professor, a river guide and an activist, primarily
in Arizona and Utah. Prior to attending law school, Bob worked
as a river guide in the Grand Canyon, and served as a ranger in
the National Park Service, Volunteer in Parks program (Grand Canyon
National Park, 1975-1976). He chaired the Environmental Law Society
at the University of San Francisco (1978-1979), and interned with
Friends of the Earth (1978-1979). In 1981, Bob founded the Colorado
Plateau Office of Friends of the River, directing that office
in Flagstaff for 7 years. During that time he served on the board
of the Western River Guides Association (Arizona Chairman, 1983-1984),
and later co-founded the Colorado Plateau Ecology Alliance (1993-95).
In Bob's legal career, he served on the board of Coconino County
Legal Aid (Flagstaff, Arizona, 1987-96), served as Chief Deputy
in the Coconino County Public Defender;s Office (1988-89), and
also directed the Student Legal Services Office at Northern
Arizona University (1986-2002). In addition to his non-profit
work and public service, Bob has served as an adjunct faculty
member at both Prescott College (1992-1993) and Northern Arizona
University (1988-2003), teaching courses in Environmental Law,
Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Native American Law, and Political
Science. Since 1980, Bob has maintained a private and public
interest practice, emphasizing environmental law and policy
consulting, constitutional law, criminal law and civil rights,
Native American issues, family, and tenant law.
Bob's ongoing environmental campaigns have involved protection
and restoration efforts involving the Colorado River, Grand
Canyon National Park, and Glen Canyon, most recently focusing
on issues of sustainability and watershed bioregionalism. Along
those lines, since 1981, Bob has written a number of articles
and made numerous presentations regarding the same. In 1983,
Bob was a delegate to the historic Colorado River Symposium
in Santa Fe, and also presented testimony before the House Committee
on Interior and Insular Affairs regarding mismanagement of Colorado
River dams and infrastructure, advocating for the decommissioning
of Glen Canyon dam. In 1990, Bob again urged for Congressional
intervention in Colorado River protection by publishing a paper
with support from the Tides Foundation, entitled "Agency
Recalcitrance and Evasion Regarding Compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act, Relating to Glen Canyon Dam Operations:
A Documented Need for Congressional Intervention." A similar
paper that year also examined issues involving economic colonialism,
and political sovereignty for indigenous tribes and cultures
in the American Southwest. Bob is a graduate of Tulane University
(B.A., 1973) and the University of San Francisco College of
Law (J.D., 1979). He is a member of the Arizona Bar, the U.S.
District Court for the District of Arizona and authorized to
practice law before the Hopi Tribal Court. Bob and his wife,
Pamala Hackley, a soils scientist from Helena, Mt., recently
constructed and joyfully moved into their off-grid, passive
solar, adobe and rastra home in Castle Valley. They immensely
enjoy live music, rowing their dory down the Colorado River
and its tributaries, and waxing poetic about the life, times
and philosophical explorations of Edward Abbey.
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