BIOGRAPHY

Kim L. Simmons  JD, University of Virginia, 1994. Notes Editor, Virginia Law Review. Judicial Law Clerk, Hon. Donald L. Graham, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, 1994 to 1995. Judicial Law Clerk, Hon. Damon J. Keith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1995 to 1996. Attorney General's Honor Program, Trial Attorney, Environmental Defense Section, U.S. Department of Justice, 1996 to 1999. Counsel, Office of the Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, 1999 to 2001. Associate, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, LLP, 2001 to 2003. Kim's private sector practice has included civil and criminal litigation concerning various federal environmental statutes, with an emphasis on the Clean Air Act and Superfund Enforcement. Her Clean Air Act experience has included extensive fact development, motions practice and legislative history research and analysis for New Source Review litigation. Kim also has assisted corporate criminal defense matters in the environmental and health care contexts, internal investigations related to environmental and health care regulatory compliance matters, and general litigation involving constitutional issues. Kim entered private practice in 2001 from the U.S. Department of Justice where she served for three years in the Attorney General's Honor Program as a trial attorney for the Environmental Defense Section, after which she served as counsel to the Deputy Attorney General. As a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Kim handled federal district court and appellate court litigation under the major federal environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, CERCLA and the Toxic Substances Control Act. Her cases included petitions for review of EPA rulemakings, CERCLA contribution actions, wetlands enforcement and challenges to TMDL programs, requiring extensive motions practice, oral argument, negotiation and mediation. In the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, Kim provided counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno and Deputy Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., on criminal, civil rights, election fraud and diversity laws and policies implemented throughout the United States.

 

Kim Simmons

Wallace, King, Marraro & Branson

1050 Thomas Jefferson St., NW

Washington D.C., 20007

Phone: (202) 204-1000

Fax: (202) 204-1001

Email: ksimmons@wallaceking.com