Description

Kelly M. McQueen has over ten years of experience in environmental and natural resource law, having practiced in both the public and private legal arenas. A former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Arkansas in the Environment Section, Ms. McQueen is a 1991 graduate of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, where she obtained a B.A. in Business and Economics. Having served as Associate Managing Editor of the Law Journal and a charter member of the Environmental Law Society, she received her J.D. with honors in 1995 from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law. The only person from Arkansas to attend the prestigious environmental law program at Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, Ms. McQueen received her Masters of Law (LL.M) in environmental and natural resources law from Lewis & Clark in 1997.

Ms. McQueen is admitted to the bar in Arkansas, Colorado, US District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas, and US Courts of Appeal for the Eighth and Federal Circuits. She focuses her practice on environmental law, including federal and state litigation; transactional and regulatory matters, including air, water and climate change issues; hazardous waste permitting and enforcement; and due diligence.  Her practice has particular emphasis on power plant and industrial facility siting.

Representative clients and facilities for whom Ms. McQueen has rendered environmental counsel include multi-state power companies; industrial parks; municipalities, petroleum marketers/distributors/bulk storage plants; chemical distributors/bulk storage plants; UST owners/operators, medical waste incinerators; resource recycling operations; solid waste recycling and disposal facilities; hazardous waste combusting cement kilns and incinerators; pulp and paper, specialty chemical, and other manufacturers; large scale real estate developers; quarry operations; hospitals; and bakeries.

The past Chair of the Arkansas Bar Association Environmental Law Section, Ms. McQueen is the author of several articles and publications on environmental law, including Editor for the Lex Mundi Environmental Law World Desk Reference. She is a member of the American, Arkansas, and Pulaski County Bar Associations as well as the Arkansas Environmental Federation and Arkansas Forestry Association.

Bar Admission

Arkansas, 1995
Colorado, 1996
U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Arkansas, 1995
U.S. District Court for Western District of Arkansas, 1995
U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1997

Affiliations

American Bar Association
Sections:
Litigation
Environment
Energy & Resources

Arkansas Bar Association
Sections: Environmental Law

• Pulaski County Bar

• Arkansas Association of Women Lawyers

• Arkansas Environmental Federation

• Arkansas Forestry Association

• Arkansas Artspace, Inc., Board Member

• Family Service Agency, Board Member (Board Officer)

• Central Arkansas Rescue Effort, volunteer and former Board Member

• Arkansas Sculptors' Guild, former Board Member

Activities

Classes/Seminars Taught:
Numerous seminars on various environmental and natural resources topics

Education

Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College,
Portland, OR 1997
LL.M. in Environmental and Natural Resources Law

University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law,
Little Rock, AR 1995
Juris Doctor with honors
Associate Managing Editor of the Law Journal

Rhodes College
Memphis, TN
B.A. in Business Administration and Economics