Overview

Assistant Attorney General James R. Milkey is Chief of the Environmental Protection
Division (EPD) of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General. He graduated magna cum
laude from Harvard Law School in 1983 and received a master’s degree in city planning from
M.I.T. the same year. After clerking for Justice Benjamin Kaplan, he joined the Attorney
General’s Office in 1984, was appointed Deputy Chief of EPD in 1990, and Chief in 1996.
During the 1994-95 academic year, Milkey was a visiting associate professor at Pace Law
School in White Plains, New York, where he taught environmental and administrative law
courses, and during the 2000-01 academic year, he was on leave in Copenhagen, Denmark. He
is a frequent lecturer on enforcement, brownfields, and regulatory takings issues. From 2003 to
2005, he served as co-chair of the Environmental Law Section of the Boston Bar Association. In
November of 2006, he argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Massachusetts v. EPA,
challenging EPA’s refusal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the federal Clean Air Act.
Milkey lives in Newton Highlands with his wife Cathie Jo Martin -- a political science professor
at Boston University -- and their sons Julian and Jack.

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