Gina Guy’s environmental practice focuses on natural resources law including issues of federally owned lands and issues related to endangered species.

From 2002 to 2004 Gina was the deputy general counsel for Installations and Environment for the United States Air Force, where she handled legal matters relating to environmental management and land use worldwide including the privatization of Air Force housing at numerous installations in the United States. She led and coordinated all National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) litigation and policy for the Air Force.

Prior to her role with the US Air Force, Gina spent 20 years as the regional solicitor of the Department of the Interior for the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain Regions. As regional solicitor, she advised on a wide range of environmental issues, focusing on matters involving the Endangered Species Act; Clean Water Act, federal mineral leasing; cases involving the interests of numerous Native American tribes; water rights and the NEPA. Gina has worked with the Department of Justice on hundreds of cases.

Although for internal administrative reasons Gina is a member of Squire Sanders' Phoenix office, she resides in Denver, Colorado.

Gina founded the Committee on International Environmental Law of the Section of Environment, Energy & Resources of the American Bar Association and served as chair from 1987 to 1991. She has lectured on environmental topics, both in English and Spanish, for professional organizations and at law schools in the United States and Latin America.

She is a former adjunct professor at the University of Denver College of Law.

Gina has written articles and spoken on environmental issues for numerous publications and professional associations including the American Bar Association, the Wyoming State Bar and the Inter-American Bar Association.

Representative Experience

• Negotiating compliance of the Endangered Species Act with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission regarding an inactive uranium mill site on the Colorado River.
• Addressing legal matters relating to NEPA and other environmental issues arising from coalbed methane development in the Powder River Basin.
• Acting as representative of the Secretary of the Interior in negotiating a settlement of an Endangered Species Act dispute on the Middle Rio Grande in drought emergency (2001) with New Mexico, multiple Native American tribes, water users and environmental groups.
• Counseling the Fish and Wildlife Service in the development of the first Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) to permit the incidental take of listed species following amendment of the Endangered Species Act to do so in San Mateo County, California and other large-scale HCPs such as Washington County, Utah.