Lisa K. Friedman ’69

Lisa K. Friedman ’69, of Washington, D.C.; Aug. 5. She earned her JD from Harvard Law School and, after working for the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue, she joined the staff of the Office of General Counsel (OGC) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where she remained for the next 27 years. For more than 12 years she served as the associate general counsel for OGC’s solid waste and emergency response division. She was the first woman to become an associate general counsel. During her tenure, she was selected to head a new office within OGC and also served for a time as acting principal deputy general counsel. Later in her EPA career, she served as the associate general counsel for air and radiation. In recognition of her many contributions to EPA, she was awarded the presidential meritorious and distinguished rank awards. She also applied her legal skills in the community, serving on the editorial board of the Environmental Law Reporter, chairing an American Bar Association committee, and teaching environmental law at George Washington University Law School. She was a volunteer with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI) and the Washington Metro Oasis, where she taught seniors how to connect to the internet and communicate through email.