Elizabeth Armistead Andrews

Elizabeth Andrews is the inaugural Practitioner Fellow of the Environmental Institute at the University of Virginia. In that position, she focuses on climate change resilience and natural resources-related law and policy projects. She formerly served as a Professor of the Practice and Director of William & Mary Law School’s Virginia Coastal Policy Center; as Senior Assistant Attorney General and Chief of the Environmental Section of the Virginia Office of the Attorney General; and as the Water Policy Manager for the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. She has worked closely with the legislature, the regulated community, nonprofits and community organizations to address environmental and resilience challenges facing Virginia.

Elizabeth is a graduate of the College of William & Mary and received her Juris Doctor degree, summa cum laude, from the Washington College of Law at American University. She has served as the Virginia representative on the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Climate Resiliency Workgroup and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Environmental Section of the Virginia State Bar. She is an elected Fellow in the American College of Environmental Lawyers. In 2020, she was appointed by the Governor to the Technical Advisory Committee charged with developing Virginia’s first Coastal Resilience Master Plan, and served as Chair of its Finance Subcommittee. She also served as a member of the Expert Study Board convened by the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering & Medicine (VASEM) to research and draft the report, The Impact of Climate Change on Virginia’s Coastal Areas, which was submitted to the Virginia General Assembly pursuant to House and Senate Joint Resolution 47 (2020).