Seth M. Barsky

Seth was appointed as a career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in 2022.  He joined ENRD in 1990 through the Attorney General’s Honors Program (after two summer internships with ECS and EDS).  For his first nine years, Seth served as a trial attorney and senior attorney in EDS, where he litigated cases under the major federal pollution control statutes.  In 1999, he moved to WMRS to become an Assistant Section Chief, and then served as the Section Chief from 2011 to 2022.  In WMRS, Seth supervised all civil litigation arising under the federal wildlife and marine resources statutes, including the Endangered Species Act, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.  Since 2016, he also supervised judicial civil enforcement of the federal animal welfare statutes.  During his tenure, he has managed some of the most high-profile and complex litigation concerning the intersection of species protection and critical programs.  Seth also has served as an adjunct law professor teaching courses in Natural Resources Law and Administrative Law at the University of Michigan Law School; Washington College of Law, American University; and Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America.  Seth received his law and undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.