Director, Environmental Law Programs
Pace University School of Law
LeRoy C. Paddock
LeRoy "Lee" C. Paddock, J.D. is Director of Environmental Law Programs and an adjunct professor of law at Pace University School of Law, the third-ranked environmental law program in the United States.
Paddock serves as Chair of the Specialist Group on Enforcement and Compliance for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Commission on Environmental Law. He is also Chair of the American Bar Association, Section for Environment, Energy and Resources Committee on Innovations, Management Systems and Trading. A senior consultant to the National Academy of Public Administration, he has focused on environmental governance, environmental justice, the Clean Air Act and enforcement issues. Prior to joining Pace Law School, Paddock was a Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Law Institute and worked with the Environmental Protection Agency's Performance (EPA) Track program.
From 1978 until 1999, Paddock was an Assistant Attorney General with the Minnesota Attorney General's Office under Hubert H. Humphrey III, where he served as Director of Environmental Policy, managed the Office's Agriculture and Natural Resources Division and on the Humphrey's Executive Committee. From 1985-1986, he was Senior Environmental Counsel to the National Association of Attorneys General. Paddock has served on numerous national panels including the Aspen Institute's Series on Environment in the 21st Century and the American National Standard Institute's ISO 14000 Environmental Management Systems Council. He helped design the EPA's environmental auditing policy and participated for several years in the work of the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, co-founded by EPA and the Dutch Ministry of the Environment.
Paddock served as a law clerk to to Judge Donald Lay of the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. His law degree is from the University of Iowa and his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.
