Jane Steadman earned her B.A. cum laude in biology, with minors in anthropology and environmental studies, from Kalamazoo College in 2001. In 2009, she graduated magna cum laude from Lewis & Clark Law School, where she was inducted into the Cornelius Honor Society and received the Bernard F. O'Rourke Award for outstanding written scholarship in the environmental and natural resources field. At Lewis & Clark, she was an Associate Editor for Environmental Law, which published her comment "Protecting Water Quality and Salmon in the Columbia Basin: The Case for State Certification of Federal Dams" in 2008. She also co-authored an article with Professor Michael Blumm entitled "Indian Treaty Fishing Rights and Habitat Protection: The Martinez Decision Supplies a Resounding Judicial Reaffirmation," which was published in Natural Resources Journal in 2009. During law school, Jane also clerked with the Oregon Natural Desert Association, Earthjustice, and Crag Law Center and participated in two Lewis & Clark legal clinics-the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center and the International Environmental Law Project. Prior to joining Kanji & Katzen, Jane worked as a legal analyst in The Wilderness Society's National Forest Action Center for two years, in which time she worked on dozens of Forest Service travel management plans and forest plans across the West.

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