Sheila Hollis

Sheila Slocum Hollis is chair of the Washington, D.C. office and serves on the firm's Executive Committee and Partners Board. Ms. Hollis practices in the areas of energy transactional and regulatory law and international and administrative law before government agencies, Congress and other entities. She focuses on domestic and international energy, water and environmental matters, representing governmental bodies and the power and natural gas industries. She was recently named one of the 50 Key Women in Energy worldwide and was a finalist for Lifetime Achievement in Energy in Platt's Global Energy Awards. Ms. Hollis is the first attorney in private practice to be nominated for the award. With a long career in issues relating to infrastructure, energy reliability, enforcement and compliance, and international energy policy, Ms. Hollis recently successfully represented the District of Columbia in a key electric reliability case and the Town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, in a vital nuclear plant relicensing and negotiation matter.

Ms. Hollis was the first director of the Office of Enforcement of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, establishing the office and its policies and procedures, serving from 1977 to 1980, and was a trial lawyer at the Federal Power Commission from 1974 to 1975. Those policies and procedures remain in place today. Over the course of her career, she has played a key role in the formation and implementation of energy law and policy.

Ms. Hollis is the chair of the Board of Editors of the American Bar Association's Council of the Fund for Justice and Education. She is the past chair (2001-2002) of the Section of Environment, Energy and Resources of the American Bar Association, representing 11,000 ABA members. She recently completed a three-year term as the Federal Circuit representative on the Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary and was one of the two primary investigators for the Committee of Chief Justice John Roberts. She serves in the ABA's House of Delegates and served for several years on the Nominating Committee of the ABA. In addition, she served as chair of the Standing Committee on Environmental Law from 1997 to 2000 and served two terms as chair of the ABA's Coordinating Group on Energy Law. A Fellow of the ABA, Ms. Hollis serves on the Editorial Board of the ABA Journal. Ms. Hollis was the first woman to serve as president of the Federal Energy Bar Association (1991 to 1992). She served as president of the Women's Council on Energy and the Environment from 1997-2002. She is the first person to serve as both president of the Federal Energy Bar Association and chair of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources. She is a board member of the United States Energy Association and chairs its nominating committee. She also is a member of the Advisory Committee of the North American Energy Standards Board. Ms. Hollis served as a professorial lecturer in the law on the subject of energy law at The George Washington University Law School from 1979 to 1999 and was recently recognized by the school for her 20-year contribution. She serves on the Board of the American Friends of the Royal Society, which is one of the oldest scientific bodies in the world.

Admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Colorado, she is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for American and International Law and as vice chair of its Institute for Energy Law. She is also a trustee of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation and the Women's Bar Association. With an extensive background in international energy law, Ms. Hollis is admitted as an honorary, international member of the Commercial Bar of England and Wales. She is a member of the Energy, International, Women's and Federal bar associations and the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. Ms. Hollis is widely published in energy law and policy matters, having co-authored two energy law texts and numerous articles on energy policy, energy enforcement, natural gas, independent power and cogeneration, and hydroelectric energy regulation. She was ranked by The National Law Journal as one of the United States' top 20 energy lawyers and is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World and other biographical directories.

A Colorado native, she is a 1973 graduate of the University of Denver College of Law and a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, cum laude in general studies, honors in journalism.