Nicholas Institute Staff

Amy Pickle
Amy Pickle is the Senior Attorney for State Policy at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. She has extensive experience in environmental litigation and environmental policy development at the state and federal level.

She served as an Assistant Attorney General from 2001-2003 working on implementing the North Carolina Attorney General’s environmentally superior hog waste management initiative. From 2003-2008, she was a Senior Attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center where she served as the lead water attorney working on both litigation and legislative and administrative policy advocacy. She joined the Nicholas Institute in late 2008.

Her current projects at the Nicholas Institute include state water allocation policy, innovative strategies to improve protection of drinking water supplies, coastal adaptation to climate change, and ocean governance.

Pickle lives in Raleigh with her husband and son. She graduated with honors from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law in 2000.