10th Annual Ruckelshaus Circle Luncheon: The Past, Present, and Future of Environmental Protection

About the event

Join the William D. Ruckelshaus Center for its 10th annual Ruckelshaus Circle Luncheon, formerly Chairman’s Circle Luncheon, on Sept. 11. The event will feature two former US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrators, Lisa P. Jackson and William K. Reilly, and will celebrate the Ruckelshaus Center’s Founder and Chair Emeritus, Bill Ruckelshaus.

Lisa P. Jackson and William K. Reilly will discuss “The Past, Present, and Future of Environmental Protection.” Both speakers have experience in the public and private sectors. Jackson currently serves as Apple’s VP of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, and from 2009 to 2013, she served as EPA Administrator. Reilly served four US Presidents: Presidents Nixon, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama, and was EPA Administrator from 1989 to 1993.

A portion of this program will also commemorate the EPA’s 50th Anniversary, and celebrate the life and career of Bill Ruckelshaus, the EPA’s first and fifth Administrator. Born in the wake of elevated concern about environmental pollution, the EPA was established on December 2, 1970, to consolidate a variety of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting, and enforcement activities relating to environmental protection. Bill Ruckelshaus was committed to addressing environmental issues and public policy challenges through collaborative approaches. This commitment would lead him to become founder and Advisory Board Chair of the William D. Ruckelshaus Center.

The Ruckelshaus Circle Luncheon is an opportunity for you to advance the Ruckelshaus Center’s work bringing the expertise of our state’s premier research institutions to help community members, business leaders, and government decision makers collaboratively tackle complex, and often, controversial, policy challenges. The Ruckelshaus Center brings people together to sort through information, build understanding, and solve problems to improve communities and the state of Washington.