Linda Willard

Counsel, Energy Practice
Dentons
Biography: 

Linda is a member of the Energy practice where she concentrates on energy, environmental, and infrastructure policy. Resident in the Washington, DC, office, Linda represents clients before Congress, the executive branch and other government entities. Her experience as a government affairs lawyer and public policy advisor spans the public and private sectors. She has served as a counsel to the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works; a lawyer in the Energy and Environment practice of a global law firm based in Washington; and counsel and senior policy advisor in a DC-based lobbying firm.

As counsel to the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Linda focused primarily on infrastructure policy in the areas of surface transportation and water resources. Linda also served as the lead staff member for nuclear safety, Tennessee Valley Authority, Clean Water Act/Section 404, oil pollution, federal emergency management, surface transportation and water resources development. She drafted and helped build a bipartisan coalition of 40 senators in support of, the Estuary Restoration Act. She also drafted legislative language, committee reports and hearing materials relating to the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century and two subsequent Water Resources Development Acts.

In addition to working for the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Linda served as a legal clerk for Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, researching and drafting amendments to legislation before the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and conducted legal research for budget and tax issues in pending legislation before the Senate.