Elizabeth Andrews

Biography

Elizabeth Andrews is the Director of the Virginia Coastal Policy Center at the William and Mary Law School. She also serves as the Virginia representative on the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Climate Resiliency Workgroup. She is a member of the Alternative Management Structures Workgroup of the Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Advisory Committee.

Andrews has previously served as the Water Policy Manager for the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, during which time she worked closely with the legislature, the regulated community and environmental organizations to address the water quality and quantity challenges facing Virginia, especially its coastal areas.

She has also served as the Senior Assistant Attorney General and the Chief of the Environmental Section of the Virginia Office of the Attorney General. In this capacity, she oversaw a team of attorneys representing and providing counsel to the Secretary of Natural Resources and the natural resources agencies of the Commonwealth. She also chaired the Office’s internal APA Committee.

Andrews has served for many years as an appointed member of the Virginia Code Commission’s Administrative Law Advisory Committee. She is former Chair of Virginia State Bar’s Communications Committee and the Richmond Bar Association’s Energy and Environmental Law Section. She is also a graduate of the Leadership Fairfax program.

Education

Leadership Fairfax program

Doctor of Law (Juris Doctor), Washington College of Law at American University

Bachelor of Arts, College of William and Mary