Biography

Lucy Brown ’18 is a proud graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law.  She joins the faculty after six years with the U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, in the Attorney General’s Honors Program.  At DOJ, Lucy represented the United States in complex civil litigation arising under a broad range of environmental statutes including the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.  Lucy served as Senior Attorney for Career Development and Training and was honored to receive the Attorney General’s John Marshall Award for Support of Litigation.  

Before joining DOJ, Lucy clerked for the Honorable Michael D. Wilson, then-Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaiʻi.  During law school, Lucy served as a Case Note Editor for the University of Hawaiʻi Law Review and was an oralist on the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court team.  She also volunteered at the Domestic Violence Action Center and served as an extern for the Honorable Richard W. Pollack (Ret.).  Lucy grew up on a small coffee and avocado farm in the ahupuaʻa of Hōnaunau on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

Awards & Honors

U.S. Department of Justice John Marshall Award for Support of Litigation (2023)