Steven A. Herman

Biography
[EPA press release - May 28, 1993]

The U.S. Senate today confirmed Steven Herman as EPA Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and David Gardiner as EPA Assistant Administrator for Policy, Planning and Evaluation.

"Joining the EPA senior leadership team are two outstanding managers with extensive environmental experience. Their credentials demonstrate their determination to protect our health and resources. They share my desire to build consensus, improve regulatory efficiency and integrate pollution prevention into all aspects of the agency's policies," Administrator Carol Browner said.

Herman was a career environmental litigation attorney at the Department of Justice for 15 years and before that had nine years of public interest law experience. From 1984 to 1993, he was Assistant Chief of the General Litigation Section, Environmental and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, and served in the same operation in other litigation functions from 1978 to 1984. He was the lead federal attorney in a 1991 landmark negotiated settlement which halted pollution in the Everglades National Park and Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in Florida. Herman received seven outstanding service awards from the Department of Justice.

From 1969 to 1972, Herman was an attorney with the Legal Aid Bureau of Pulaski County, Little Rock, Ark., specializing in counsel to community groups, inmages and low-income individuals. He was with the New York City Legal Aid Society from 1971 to 1978 as counsel for the Prisoners' Rights Project and Criminal Appeals Bureau.

Herman, 48, received his bachelor's and law degrees from Rutgers University.

Steven A. Herman

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