Kathleen Henry, President

Kathleen Henry received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in 1983. She received a Masters Degree in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986, and her J.D. degree from Washington University in 1989. While at Washington University, she was a research assistant for Professor Daniel R. Mandelker and she co-founded the Public Interest Law Society and the Environmental Law Society. She is a member of the Missouri, Illinois, and District of Columbia Bars as well as the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

From 1989-1992 she worked for the Missouri Public Defender, Appellate Division, handling indigent criminals' appeals and postconviction motions. From 1993-1998, she worked at Green, Hennings & Henry LLP, participating in general litigation for the firm, focusing mainly on environmental law. She participated in many of the environmental cases litigated by Mr. Green and Mr. Morrison during that period. In 1999 and 2000, Ms. Henry worked for Swankin and Turner in Washington, D.C., on a variety of matters including nonprofit and consumer law. In addition, she worked for the Law Offices of John L. Laster in Falls Church, Virginia, doing trusts and estate work.

In 2000 Ms. Henry returned to Green, Hennings and Henry LLP, where she handled environmental matters, and assisted her father, Lewis Green, in incorporating the Great Rivers Environmental Law Center. Following the death of her father in 2003, Ms. Henry became the President of Great Rivers Environmental Law Center.

Since the inception of Great Rivers, Ms. Henry has represented several environmental organizations. She assisted Mr. Green and Mr. Morrison in their representation of the Missouri Coalition for the Environment in its suit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the permits issued allowing a mall development in the floodplains of the Missouri River. She represents Earth Share in its suit against the University of Missouri pursuant to the Missouri Sunshine Law. Ms. Henry represents the Missouri Coalition for the Environment and individual plaintiffs in their suit against the Missouri Department of Natural Resources over the issuance of permits to the United States Army to allow fog oil emissions training at Fort Leonard Wood. For the Sierra Club of Western Kentucky, she assisted in its suit against the Kentucky Division of Air Quality over the permits granted to Peabody Coal Company to build the Thoroughbred Generating Station..For the environmental organization Heartwood, she assisted in its suit against the U.S. Forest Service over the sale of national forest lands. In addition, she assisted U. City in Bloom with its application to the IRS to qualify as a 501(c)(3) organization.

She is a member of the Missouri Bar and St. Louis Bar Associations. She is a Charter Member of the Solo and Small Practitioners Section of the St. Louis Bar Association and a member of the Nonprofit Law, Environmental Law, and Women in the Legal Profession Committees of the St. Louis Bar Association.

Publications include:

Co-author of "The National Environmental Policy Act," The Missouri Bar, Missouri Environmental Law, 1993 and 2002 Cumulative Supplements.

"Missouri Acid Rain Analysis," Congressional Record, December 21, 1982.