Jim Murphy is the Associate Vice President of Legal Advocacy with National Wildlife Federation. With over 25 years of environmental law and policy experience, including over twenty the Federation, he advances National Wildlife Federation's legal engagement with the judicial, administrative, and legislative branches of government in order to protect wildlife, with a focus on water, wildlife, energy, and climate issues. In collaboration with NWF, he directed the Vermont Law School Environmental Advocacy Clinic from 2019-2022 and was an assistant professor at the law school.
He has an LL.M., summa cum laude, in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School, a J.D. from Boston College Law School, and B.A. in Political Science and History from the University of Vermont. He lives in an emptying nest in Montpelier, Vermont in with his wife, three kids, dog and cat, and can often be found running or skiing on a trail in the woods or paddling on a quiet Northern New England lake.
