Lisa L. Russell

Lisa was appointed as a career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in 2022. She had been the Chief of the Natural Resources Section since 2011, and from 2021-2022 served as an Acting DAAG. As Chief of NRS, Lisa supervised the full range of natural resources litigation, Fifth Amendment takings claims, Tribal trust litigation, and water rights and allocations cases. In her former ENRD positions Lisa was an Assistant Chief and Senior Attorney in the Wildlife and Marine Resources Section, Senior Counselor to the AAG, and Trial Attorney in EDS. Lisa has served on numerous Division committees and workgroups, including the Honor Grad Hiring Committee, ENRD Management Workgroup, and ENRD Climate Workgroup.

From 2009 to 2011, Lisa worked at the Department of the Interior as Deputy Solicitor for Parks and Wildlife, where she advised the Office of the Secretary, Solicitor, and Interior Bureau Directors on legal issues arising under federal wildlife laws and statutes and regulations governing the management of the National Park System and public lands. 

Lisa received a B.S. in Chemistry from Denison University and a J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri.  She spent her 2L summer in D.C. as an EES law clerk and, after graduating, clerked for the Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones of the Sixth Circuit.  She grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio.