Sierra Club Snags Big Ten’s Top Lawyer After Leadership Shake-Up

May 10, 2022, 9:30 AM UTC

Sierra Club has hired Erica McKinley as its chief legal officer after the environmental group moved to replace most of its senior management within the last year.

McKinley most recently served as the top in-house lawyer for the Big Ten collegiate athletic conference. The Big Ten hired McKinley last year from her role as general counsel for the University of Mississippi.

She takes the top lawyer for a 130-year-old nonprofit that has been a party to enviromental cases that have reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Sierra Club announced last August that its longtime executive director Michael Brune would step ...

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