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Stanley W. Legro
Biography
[EPA press release - July 16, 1975]
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Russell E. Train today announced that Stanley W. Legro, 39, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as EPA's new Assistant Administrator for Enforcement.
Legro, formerly of the San Diego law firm of Legro and Rentto, has assumed his new duties.
Legro's principal responsibility will be to enforce EPA's regulatory authorities in the areas of air, water, pesticides, noise, radiation and solid waste. He will direct or provide guidance for a nationwide compliance program involving some 1,400 employees funded with a fiscal 1976 budget of roughly $37 million.
Legro was a founding partner in the Legro and Rentto Law firm, established in 1971. Between 1967 and 1971, he was with the firm of Welsh and Gibson as a partner. From 1966 to 1967, Legro was with the firm of Tuttle & Taylor. In addition, since 1968, he was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law teaching equitable remedies, injunctions and other subjects.
Born on July 3, 1936, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Legro received an engineering B.S. degree with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1959. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1959 until 1963. In 1966, he received his J.D. degree cum laude from Harvard Law School.
Formerly of Puerta del Sol, Rancho Santa Fe, California, Legro now resides in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife, the former Marcia Louise West, and their two children.