Jocelyn Gibbon

Work

Jocelyn is an environmental and water lawyer based in Phoenix. Her work as part of Environmental Defense Fund’s Colorado River team focuses on state and Basin-wide water policy issues related to healthy river flows and sustainable water supplies.

Background

Prior to joining EDF, Jocelyn practiced environmental and natural resource law in the private sector, representing an array of municipal, industrial, and not-for-profit clients and specializing in western water matters. Before practicing law, she started and ran her own freelance editing business and worked for six years as a whitewater guide in the Grand Canyon, among other endeavors.

Before earning her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, Jocelyn studied natural resources policy and Colorado River law and development at Northern Arizona University. She earned a B.A. in English from Williams College, where she also cooperatively taught a university course in non-fiction writing. Jocelyn is a member of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section of the Arizona State Bar.

• JD, University of Texas School of Law, Austin, TX, 2008
• BA, English, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1998

Publications

Jocelyn co-wrote and co-produced an advocacy documentary about Arizona’s state parks, called Postcards from the Parks, in 2009–10.