James Wheaton

Mr. Wheaton is President of the Environmental Law Foundation, a public interest environmental enforcement program in Oakland. He is also founder and Senior Counsel for the First Amendment Project, a public interest law firm which protect peoples' First Amendment rights to learn about and participate in public affairs. He is a Senior Advisor to the California Bar's Environment Section and its annual Yosemite Institute, the immediate past-President and current Chair of the Legal Committee for Friends of the River, and teaches Journalism Law at the graduate schools at Berkeley and Stanford.