Author Description
James Eklund advises private and public sector clients on water issues and policy at his law firm, Eklund Hanlon LLC, located in Denver, Colorado. He served the state of Colorado for over a decade as an Assistant Attorney General, legal counsel to Colorado’s Governor, Director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board where he was the architect of Colorado’s Water Plan, and Colorado’s Colorado River representative when he signed the Colorado River Contingency Plan on behalf of the state of Colorado. He is a fifth generation Coloradan from the state’s Western Slope where his great-great grandparents, Ole and Mary Gunderson, homesteaded in 1888 on a tributary to the Colorado River and where he still spends as much time as he can helping his parents run their cow-calf operation. He also teaches courses in the University of Denver’s graduate environmental policy program. He loves to fly and would even stomach skydiving, depending, of course, on altitude and who packed the parachutes.
