Elizabeth Armistead Andrews
Elizabeth is a graduate of the College of William & Mary and received her Juris Doctor degree, summa cum laude, from the Washington College of Law at American University. She is a legislatively appointed member of the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation Board, and a peer-elected Fellow in the American College of Environmental Lawyers. She has served as the Virginia representative on the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Climate Resiliency Workgroup, and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Environmental Section of the Virginia State Bar. In 2020, she was appointed by the Governor to the Technical Advisory Committee charged with steering development of Virginia’s first Coastal Resilience Master Plan, and served as Chair of its Finance Subcommittee. She also served as a member of the Expert Study Board convened by the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering & Medicine (VASEM) to research and draft the report, The Impact of Climate Change on Virginia’s Coastal Areas, requested by the Virginia General Assembly in 2020. In 2024, she was selected to receive the Gerald P. McCarthy Award for Leadership in Environmental Conflict Resolution in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Degrees
- BA, College of William & Mary, 1984
- JD, Washington College of Law, American University, 1993
Admissions
- Virginia
Court Admissions
E.D. VA, VA Supreme CourtProfessional Societies and Organizations
VA Bar Association; appointed as a member of VA Land Conservation Foundation Board, VA Wetlands Policy Task Force, and the Hampton Roads Sanitation District Commission.Other Environmental Career Experience
- Professor of the Practice and Director, Virginia Coastal Policy Center, William & Mary Law School
- Environmental Sustainability and Resilience Practitioner Fellow, Environmental Institute, University of Virginia
- Senior Assistant Attorney General and Section Chief, Environmental Section, Virginia Office of the Attorney General
Representative Publications (not including ACOEL Blogs)
- • Proactive Planning for Resilience: Protocols for Community-Led Climate Adaptation in Virginia (2024) (an online guide for local governments)
- • Wilson, B., Andrews, E., Denckla Cobb, T., & Gladfelter, S. (2024). Facilitating climate adaptation: The Resilience Adaptation Feasibility Tool (RAFT) framework. Local Development & Society (Open Access). https://doi.org/10.1080/26883597.2024.2364266.
- • Yusuf, W., Denckla Cobb, T., Andrews, E., Gladfelter, S., & Montrose, G. (2022). The Resilience Adaptation Feasibility Tool (RAFT) as an approach for incorporating equity into coastal resilience planning and project implementation. Shore & Beach, 90 (4), 53-63. https://doi.org/10.34237/1009046.
- • Co-author, The Impact of Climate Change on Virginia’s Coastal Areas (June 2021), a legislatively-mandated study conducted by the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering & Medicine
- • Andrews, E., Denckla Cobb, T., Covi, M., & King, A.M. (2021). Resilience Adaptation Feasibility Tool (The RAFT) project: Communities: Teaming up with companies, cities, states, academia. In COLLABORATING FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE (compiled by Ann Goodman and Nilda Mesa (2021)), pp. 25–38. Routledge.
- • Legal and Policy Challenges for Future Marsh Preservation in the Chesapeake Bay Region, Wetlands 1-12 (2020).
- • Andrews, E. & Reiblich, J., Reflections on Rural Resilience: As the Climate Changes, Will Rural Areas Become the Urban Backyard?, William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review, Spring 2020.
- • Morris Foster, James O’Donnell, Mark Luckenbach, Elizabeth Andrews, Emily Steinhilber, John Wells & Mark Davis, Institutionalizing Resilience in U.S. Universities: Prospects, Opportunities and Models, Vol. 52, No. 2 Marine Technology Society Journal 106 (March/April 2018).
- • Co-author, Tourism Business Resilience for Coastal VA Assessment Report, CCRFR Report 2 (Sept. 2017).
- • Co-author, Review of Boat Wake Wave Impact on Shoreline Erosion and Potential Solution for the Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Bay Program Scientific & Technical Advisory Comm. Publ. 17-002 (May 12, 2017).
