Guy R. Martin

2005-2010
Guy Martin is a senior partner in the national law firm of Perkins Coie, resident in the DC office, where he specializes in natural resources, energy and environmental law, particularly western and Alaska resources. Guy started his career as a professor of political science and public law in Alaska, leading to politics and years of public service including tenure as Commissioner of Natural Resources for the State of Alaska and Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Water Resources in the Carter administration. He was deeply involved in most of the major actions which have shaped Alaska, including the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary. Guy is also an expert on western water policy and represents most of the largest western cities on urban water supply issues. Guy also works extensively in the area of Indian law, and in recent years has been nationally active on law and policy issues related to the growth of tribal gaming.

Guy has served on the boards of most of the schools his two daughters have attended and just completed eleven years as a trustee for St. Timothy's School for Girls in Baltimore. A native of Colorado, and graduate of the University of Colorado (BA and JD), Guy was a founder, and serves on the board, of the Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado Law School and has served on the Board of Governors of the Shakespeare Theater in Washington. He has lectured at the Kennedy School of Government, the University of Colorado, and other institutions, and for nearly a decade wrote a Washington-based colunm on western resources and political issues. He lives on Capitol Hill in Washington with his wife, Nancy. His younger daughter, Summer Martin, is a member of the Mount Holyoke class of 2007 and a history major.