L. James J. Eklund
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
James Eklund's family homesteaded a cattle ranch on a tributary to the Colorado River on Colorado's Western Slope in 1888. James has lived in every major river basin in Colorado as well as Tlingit fishing village in Southeast Alaska. As a lawyer, James is a disappointment to much of his family. He is redeemed in their eyes, however, because he drinks whiskey and fights over water (although never at the same time). As an Assistant Attorney General with the Federal and Interstate Water Unit, he protects the state's Colorado River water from all enemies, foreign and domestic. James is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Denver College of Law (neither of which, his grandfather was always quick to note, help him fix fence or set irrigation water). The Upper Colorado River endangered fish he most identifies with is the Razorback Sucker because he thinks of himself as sharp but also gullible at times.
02/11
