Adjunct Professor at South University in High Point, NCMr. Eppley serves as an adjunct professor of legal studies at South University and is a self-employed general practitioner since 2013. Previously he worked in a small civil business firm for 17 years, first as a paralegal and later as an attorney. Mr. Eppley received his B.A. degree from University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, his M.P.A. degree from University of North Florida, and his J.D. degree from Wake Forest University School of Law where he served as a teaching assistant and tutor for legal research and writing.

Mr. Hicks is a California water law, real property, and conservation attorney who represents a variety of public interest organizations, landowners, and others on select public policy, transactional, administrative, regulatory, and litigation matters. Before law school, he was an energy and water policy analyst at the Natural Heritage Institute and the founder and executive director of the Headwaters Institute. He has interned at the San Francisco Office of the City Attorney, California State Water Resources Control Board, and American Rivers. Mr. Hicks founded and chaired the inaugural California Water Law Symposium sponsored by leading northern California law schools and is a Board member. He is the author of the Water Education Foundation’s 2020 Layperson’s Guide to Water Rights Law, recognized as the most thorough explanation of California water rights law available to non-lawyers. He is a former whitewater raft guide, kayaker, and Colorado Outward Bound School instructor. Mr. Hicks holds a J.D. degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law and a B.A. degree from the University of Vermont.

Research Analyst Paralegal at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & RiceMs. Theriot is a senior research analyst at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP in Winston-Salem, where she has served as project manager on national cases. She has significant experience with large-scale document productions as well as with using the latest technologies and platforms available for electronic discovery review. Ms. Theriot has more than 30 years of legal experience, including eight years of office management and more than 20 years of direct experience in business and products liability litigation.Ms. Theriot received her Associate in Arts degree at Valencia College. She is a North Carolina State certified paralegal.