Governing Board Member
 
Federico Cheever is a Professor of Law at Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver. He received his B.A./M.A. in 1981 from Stanford University and his J.D. in 1986 from UCLA School of Law. Prof. Cheever was a Judicial Clerk for Hon. Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeals (9th Circuit), an associate attorney for the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, a research fellow at the Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law, and an associate at the Denver law firm of Faegre & Benson LLP. Prof. Cheever has represented environmental groups in cases under the Endangered Species Act, the National Forest Management Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Wilderness Act, and a number of other environmental laws. Prof. Cheever teaches Environmental Law, Hazardous Substance Law, Property, Federal Wildlife Law, Public Lands, and seminars in National Forest Management Law and Land Trusts and Conservation Easements.