Anne J. Castle
University of Colorado School of Law
Anne Castle is a senior fellow at the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment at the University of Colorado, focusing on western water issues. From 2009 to 2014, she was Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the U.S. Department of the Interior where she oversaw water and science policy for the Department and had responsibility for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Geological Survey. After leaving Interior, she embarked on a quixotic hike of the 800-kilometer Camino de Santiago in Spain and then spent an idyllic spring quarter at the Woods Institute of the Environment at Stanford University as a visiting fellow. While at Interior, Castle spearheaded the Department's WaterSMART program, which, although not an entirely original name despite best intentions and multiple trademark and internet searches, provides federal leadership on the path toward sustainable water supplies. She was the driving force behind the 2010 Memorandum of Understanding among Interior, the Department of Energy, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers addressing the development of sustainable hydropower generation, the oldest, largest, least respected, and most vilified form of renewable energy in the country. Castle is a recovering lawyer, having practiced law for 28 years in Denver, Colorado with Holland & Hart LLP, and specializing in water issues. She was elected in 2001 to chair the law firm's management committee and served in that position until 2004. She also chaired the firm's natural resources law department. A relapse in the recovery process is possible.
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