Hamilton Candee

hcandee@altshulerberzon.com

Hamilton Candee is a partner at Altshuler Berzon LLP. He is a graduate of Princeton University and New York University Law School, where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar. He served as a law clerk to Judge Thelton E. Henderson of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and as a legislative assistant in the United States Senate. He was formerly a Senior Attorney in the San Francisco Office of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Co-Director of NRDC’s Western Water Project. He has been involved in a variety of efforts to restore ecosystems, protect endangered species, encourage water conservation, and promote other environmental reforms in federal and state water policy. He received a CLAY Award as one of California’s "Lawyers of the Year" in 1999 for his work pursuing restoration of the San Joaquin River and received the Bay Institute's Carla Bard Bay Education award in 2008. He was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the NRDC Action Fund.