Amy Armstrong

Executive Director, General Counsel, South Carolina Environmental Law ProjectMs. Armstrong started working for SCELP in September 2002, after receiving a competitive two year fellowship from Equal Justice Works, formerly the National Association of Public Interest Law. Once her fellowship ended, she became a staff attorney at SCELP, a position she held for more than eight years until the untimely death of SCELP’s founder, Jimmy Chandler. Ms. Armstrong graduated from University of South Carolina in May, 2002, with a J.D. degree and Master´s degree in Earth and Environmental Resource Management. She is a Liberty Fellow and also serves as a municipal court judge for the City of Georgetown. Ms. Armstrong received her B.S. degree in Biology from the University of Michigan in 1992. Before attending law school, she worked with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, managing a population of federally endangered Red-cockaded Woodpeckers. The South Carolina Environmental Law Project (SCELP) is a non-profit public interest law firm, dedicated to the protection of the South Carolina environment.