Ms. Brooke Frankel Dickerson Related Seminars and Products

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Brooke Dickerson focuses her practice on environmental and construction transaction, regulatory, compliance, and permitting matters. With regards to environmental work, she has significant experience with Brownfields, Superfund (CERCLA), hazardous waste (RCRA and HWMA), the Georgia Hazardous Site Response Act (HSRA), solid waste, wetlands, and NPDES, as well as site evaluation, assessment, and remediation issues. She also advises clients on pesticide regulatory requirements, stormwater compliance, green leasing issues, and green/sustainable building practices. Brooke assists clients with the negotiation, documentation, coordination, and closing of real property purchase and sale transactions, and corporate mergers and acquisitions; defense of regulatory enforcement and penalty actions; compliance counseling; evaluation, selection and coordination of environmental assessment, and remedial actions; contractual allocation of risk from environmental contamination; and federal and state cost recovery and contribution actions. She has particular expertise in Brownfields protections and obtaining tax abatements and other incentives related thereto.

Prior to joining AGG, Brooke was an assistant regional counsel with Region IV of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, working primarily in CERCLA, RCRA, water (wetlands and NPDES), and underground storage tanks.

Ms. Paula J. Frederick Related Seminars and Products

Former General Counsel

State Bar of Georgia

Paula Frederick retired from her role as General Counsel of the State Bar of Georgia in January 2025. She served in the Office of the General Counsel for a total of 36 years, rising through the ranks as an Assistant General Counsel handling lawyer disciplinary cases,  as Deputy General Counsel with management and supervisory responsibility, and,  beginning in 2009, as General Counsel for the organization.  The State Bar of Georgia is a unified bar organization with over 55,000 members. As General Counsel Ms. Frederick led an 11-lawyer office responsible for interpreting the ethics rules for lawyers, prosecuting lawyer discipline cases, and providing legal advice to the officers and directors of the Bar. She authored over 100 ethics articles for the Georgia Bar Journal and has presented hundreds of continuing legal education programs on issues of lawyer ethics and professionalism.  

A native of Riverside, California, Ms. Frederick attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in May 1979.  She is a 1982 graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Law, where she served as Associate Articles Editor for the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.  Prior to her work at the State Bar of Georgia, Ms. Frederick spent six years as a lawyer with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society handling civil legal matters for low-income people.   

Ms. Frederick was the first African American president of the Atlanta Bar Association, which reached 6,000 members during her presidency and is the largest voluntary bar association in the southeast.  Her focus as president was on pro bono projects and programs to benefit the Atlanta community.  She was president of the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys in 1998 and is also an active member of the Gate City Bar Association. 

Ms. Frederick is actively involved with the American Bar Association, where she chairs the Coordinating Council of the Center for Professional Responsibility.  She has an extensive history of service within the ABA, and in the past chaired the Standing Committee on Professional Regulation, the Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, and the ABA Diversity Center. She currently serves as co-chair of the Decennial Review Commission and is Secretary of the Government/Public Sector Lawyers Division.  She has been a delegate in the ABA House of Delegates for more than 25 years. 
In Atlanta, Ms. Frederick sits on the Board of Georgia Appleseed Center for Law & Justice. In the past she has served on the Boards of the Atlanta Bar Foundation, the Grant Park Conservancy, Vox Teen Communications, the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, the Georgia Legal Services Foundation, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia.  She served on the City of Atlanta Board of Ethics from 1997 through 1999. 

Ms. Frederick is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell®.  Upon her retirement the Supreme Court of Georgia presented her with its Amicus Curiae award in recognition of her service “as a guiding hand in upholding the integrity of the practice of law in Georgia.”  In 2025 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the State Bar of Georgia Young Lawyers Division. In 2014 the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys awarded her the Leah Ward Sears Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession. She was a 2004 inductee into the Gate City Bar Association Hall of Fame, and a recipient of the Charles Watkins Award for distinguished and sustained service to the Atlanta Bar Association.  She was the 2002 recipient of the Kessler Award from the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers.  In 2001 she was honored with a leadership award from the Emory Law School Public Interest Committee and a community service award from the Black American Law Students Association at the Georgia State University School of Law.  In 1995 she was State Bar of Georgia Employee of the Year. 

Mr. Nicholas Helms Howell Related Seminars and Products

Partner

King & Spalding LLP

Nicholas Howell specializes in complex litigation involving toxic and environmental torts, class actions, mass torts, and related matters. Nicholas litigates environmental citizen suits and permit challenges and disputes involving chemical exposure, groundwater contamination, air emissions, personal injury, stormwater, water rights, and property rights.  Nicholas has counseled and represented clients in litigation related to most of the major federal environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, CERCLA, and others as well as many counterpart state laws.  Nicholas also frequently provides counsel on OSHA compliance and other process safety issues.  Nicholas combines this subject matter expertise with substantial courtroom experience, having tried multiple cases to verdict in federal and state courts and administrative agencies. 

Mr. Paul Schwartz Related Seminars and Products

US Environmental Protection Agency Region 4

PAUL SCHWARTZ

Paul Schwartz, Associate Regional Counsel in the Water Law Office at EPA Region 4, is currently the Senior Attorney for NPDES Counseling and Enforcement.  He has been an attorney with EPA since 1991, previously serving as Senior Wetlands Attorney and in the CERCLA and Air legal offices.  He also took one year off from EPA in 1994-95 to tour with his rock band.  Mr. Schwartz attended the University of Georgia School of Law, where he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Law Review and graduated in 1987.  Prior to his employment at EPA, Mr. Schwartz clerked for one year for U.S. District Court Judge B. Avant Edenfield, in the Southern District of Georgia, and worked for 2 years as an Associate at the law firm Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue. 

Marjorie Hall Related Seminars and Products

NewFields

Marjorie Hall is a researcher and historian at NewFields, an Atlanta-based environmental engineering consulting firm. She has twenty years of experience doing scientific, technical, and historical research related to complex environmental issues and legacy waste disposal sites. She does in-depth online and on-site investigations of industrial history, historical standard practice, federal and state regulatory history, and social and demographic impacts. For the last ten years, Hall has assisted clients with Environmental Justice analysis, utilizing a variety of approaches closely tailored to unique site conditions and evolving guidance. She has a M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University Illinois and an M.S. in the History and Sociology of Science and Technology from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Sharon Douglas Related Seminars and Products

Corporate Environmental Risk Management

Bio

Sharon Douglas, CM, LEED Green Associate has 28 years of experience in providing professional environmental services to the transportation sector including the aerospace, aviation, and mass transit industries.  In 1994, Ms. Douglas began her career as an environmental engineering consultant for the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA) in Huntsville, Alabama. Ms. Douglas served as the Environmental Manager for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport from 2007 through 2017 and was responsible for the creation and development of the airport’s Sustainability Department.  Since joining CERM in 2018, Ms. Douglas leads many of the CERM transportation projects as the technical expert in environmental planning to address proposed action impacts, compliance and corrective action, natural resource conservation, and  sustainable development initiatives. Ms. Douglas is a native of Montgomery, Alabama and graduated from Auburn University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering.

Leslie Hubble Related Seminars and Products

MARTA

Ms. Hubble is the Director of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA). She manages the Environmental Compliance & Remediation, Environmental Management Systems, Public Health, Industrial Hygiene, General Safety, and Construction Safety programs for the Authority.

She has 21 years of experience in EHS program development, implementation, and management. Beyond her current responsibilities, Ms. Hubble also has experience in Biosafety, Laboratory Safety, and Radiation Safety. Prior to her time at MARTA, Ms. Hubble held positions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory University, and AECOM.

Ms. Hubble has presented at numerous conferences on topics such as Environmental Management, Sustainability, and Risk Assessment. She was a contributing author to the 3^rd edition “Environmental Compliance Assistance Guide” which is a joint publication between the Association of Physical Plant Administrators (APPA) and the Campus Safety Health and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA). She was also published in 2018 in Applied Biosafety: Journal of the American Biological Safety Association (ABSA) International on “Chemical Use in Animal Models”.

Ms. Hubble earned her Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health from the University of Georgia and her Master of Public Health from Emory University. She is a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) and had completed the Public Transportation Safety Certification Training Program (PTSCTP).

Richard Dunn Related Seminars and Products

EPD

Dunn was appointed Director of the Environmental Protection Division (EPD) of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources in 2016.  He has over 20 years’ experience in Georgia state government, having previous served in leadership positions at the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD).  Prior to his career in public service, Dunn taught courses on politics and public policy at Dickinson College and College of Charleston.  

Dunn earned a bachelor’s degree from Emory University and a master’s degree from the University of Georgia. 

Amy Potter Related Seminars and Products

EPD

Amy Potter has worked for the GA EPD for over 30 years.  She is a graduate of Wesleyan College in Macon, GA and Georgia Tech in Atlanta.  She currently serves as the manager of the Risk Assessment Program in the Land Protection Branch of GA EPD.  The Risk Assessment Program is responsible for reviewing risk assessments submitted by the regulated community, calculating and verifying HSRA Risk Reduction Standards, providing expertise in statistics and laboratory analyses, and drafting guidance documents for the branch.  The program also assists the Air and Watershed Protection Branches with special projects as well as other state agencies upon request, and oversees the investigation and cleanup of NPL sites in GA.  Prior to managing the Risk Assessment Program, Amy was the unit coordinator of the Department of Defense Facilities Unit and an engineer in the Treatment/Storage Unit.  

Timmerly Bullman Related Seminars and Products

Montrose Environmental

Timmerly Bullman, P.E., Ph.D. – is a professional engineer in seven states and received her PhD from Georgia Tech with a minor in public health from Emory University. She is a Principal at Montrose Environmental Solutions with 25 years of experience performing risk assessments, environmental investigations and remedial actions under CERCLA, RCRA, and state-led Brownfield and voluntary remediation programs.  As a project manager she provides strategic planning involving informed, risk-based solutions.  She analyzes the data through a combination of statistics, models (fate and transport, and risk), database management, and three-dimensional geo-spatial analysis.  Using a risk-based approach, two of her sites have successfully terminated their RCRA Part B permit via clean closure.  Timmerly leads the Montrose risk assessment practice and serves on the Georgia EPD Risk Assessment Guidance Technical Advisory Committee.

Laurie Hawks Related Seminars and Products

Hawks Environmental

Laurie Hawks is owner and president of Hawks Environmental. She has 30 years of experience in stormwater and watershed management working with local, state and federal governments, the North GA Regional Partnership, as well as private clients. She has worked on numerous watershed plans as well as stormwater concerns such as MS4 permitting, program evaluation, and funding and financing. Ms. Hawks has managed design, permitting, bidding and construction of stream restoration and stormwater BMPs projects.  She founded the Georgia Adopt-A-Stream program, serves on the board of the Southeast Stormwater Association and the Georgia Environmental Restoration Association and recently served as an expert consultant for the USEPA Stormwater Funding Task Force. She started her own business in 2020.

Paul Cramer Related Seminars and Products

Classic Center

Paul Cramer, President & CEO of The Classic Center, has led The Classic Center for nearly 28 years. Paul began his successful career in Rochester, New York, working his way up from a Banquet and Concessions Manager in 1986 to an Assistant Executive Director by 1994.

In 1995, Paul worked with The Classic Center Authority and the local community in Athens, Georgia, to oversee the development and construction of The Classic Center. To date, The Classic Center is a 350,000 square foot meeting and convention facility, with a 2,100+ seat performing arts theatre, 2,000 seat arena, 22,000 square foot outdoor covered pavilion, removable arena-size ice rink, and houses the Athens Convention and Visitors Bureau. Currently, The Center is under construction with The Classic Center Arena, which will have the capacity to hold 8,500 guests and is slated to open in early 2024.

Paul extended his reach into the community by developing and overseeing a successful workforce development program, which provides support and skills to those seeking a career in hospitality and includes the non-profit organization - Bread for Life. He also serves on the Athens Community Career Academy board and the foundation board of IAVM - International Association of Venue Managers. In addition, The Classic Center Cultural Foundation developed and overseen by Paul, provides hospitality education and performing and visual arts scholarships to the community. In 2018, Paul initiated a successful partnership between Piedmont College, The Classic Center, and the Cultural Foundation for the inception and launch of the Hospitality & Tourism Management degree program within the Harry W. Walker School of Business at Piedmont College. 

In 2015, Paul was recognized by Facilities and Destinations Magazine as an Elite Convention Center Executive. Under his leadership, The Classic Center has remained an award-winning facility. The most recent awards include the 2017 Facilities and Destinations Magazine Prime Site Award, the 2017 & 2018 Stella Award Most Outstanding Conference Center in the Southeast, and a 2019 Convention South Readers’ Choice Award for a Top Meeting Site, bringing this individual award designation to 9!

Kevin McGowan Related Seminars and Products

Contour Engineering

Kevin McGowan possesses 25 years of experience in the environmental industry with a broad experience base in a variety of environmental compliance areas. His areas of expertise lie in property redevelopment, site assessment, large-scale remedial construction and brownfield properties.  Mr. McGowan also has extensive experience with remedial system design and implementation on private, state and federal facilities and installations. Mr. McGowan’s primary focus is assessing and remediating environmentally distressed assets in Georgia working through the Georgia EPD’s HSRA, USTMP, Brownfield and VRP units.