Kim E. Ferraro is the Managing Attorney at the Conservation Law Center, where she leads the organization’s environmental litigation programs. She is a seasoned public interest environmental lawyer with nearly 20 years of experience representing communities and nonprofit organizations harmed by air pollution, toxic exposures, and environmentally destructive land use decisions.
Kim’s practice focuses on enforcing environmental and public health laws through strategic litigation in state and federal courts, including environmental citizen suits, administrative appeals, and related tort claims. She is licensed to practice law in Indiana and Illinois and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Her work frequently involves addressing legal barriers that prevent communities from obtaining relief, while also pursuing litigation to protect natural resources, wildlife, and critical habitats, including public trust and related claims to safeguard Lake Michigan and its shoreline.
In addition to her litigation work, Kim teaches law students the practice of environmental law through the Conservation Law Clinic at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. In her role as an adjunct clinical professor, she supervises students working on CLC’s active cases and representing real clients. Throughout her career, Kim has focused on ensuring that environmental laws and policies function as meaningful tools for protecting people and the environment, not as shields for polluters.
