BLM's new director appoints deputy director for policy

US Bureau of Land Management Director Robert V. Abbey on Aug. 17 named Marcilynn Burke, an attorney and professor at the University of Houston Law Center, BLM’s deputy director for policy.

Burke most recently taught environmental law courses on land use and its management, natural resources, and property at the University of Houston Law Center in Texas. She has also been a visiting assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Law in Camden, NJ, and at Seattle University School of Law, according to BLM.

She previously was with the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Washington, where she focused on environmental law, antitrust, and civil and criminal litigation, the US Department of the Interior agency said.

It added that Burke received her bachelor’s degree in international studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her law degree from Yale Law School. She also was a law clerk for federal district judge Raymond A. Jackson in Virginia’s eastern district.

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