Annual Award

Nathan Bellinger: 2025 Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient

The Executive Committee invites Section members to attend the Section’s Outstanding Achievement Award Celebration where we will socialize and honor this year’s recipient, Nathan Bellinger. This will be an in-person event, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm on Thursday, January 29, 2026, generously hosted by Tonkon Torp at their offices at, 1300 SW 5th Ave #2400, Portland, OR 97201. *Please note the new location.* Refreshments and light hors d’oeuvres will be served.

We hope you are able to attend and celebrate! Please feel free to invite non-Section members who are friends or acquainted with Nathan. For those planning to attend, please send an RSVP for you and your guests to .

THANKS to our Award Celebration sponsors, Davis Wright Tremaine, Miller Nash, Tonkon Torp, and Schwabe

Environmental & Natural Resources Section Outstanding Achievement Award Recipients

Each year the Environmental and Natural Resources Section recognizes an individual who has demonstrated exceptional leadership, dedicated service, and outstanding contributions in the areas of environmental and natural resources law.

The past Annual Award recipients include:

2024 Allison LaPlante
2023 Jay Waldron
2022 Caroline Lobdell
2021 Richard Glick
2020 Susan Jane Brown
2019 Janet Newman
2018 Joan Snyder
2017 Stephanie Parent
2016 Scott Horngren
2015 Brett VandenHeuvel
2014 Martha Pagel
2013 Richard Whitman
2012 Tom Lindley
2011 Mark Morford