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  • J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1972
  • B.A., Davidson College, 1969
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  • North Carolina

William G. Ross, Jr.

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1600 Wells Fargo Capitol Center
150 Fayetteville Street
Raleigh, North Carolina 27601
T: (919) 573-6212
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Bill Ross is the former Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources. He has returned to Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP and is resident in the firm’s Raleigh office.  

Bill led the State’s primary environmental protection and natural resources conservation agency from 2001-2009.  At Brooks Pierce, he will focus on the firm’s green growth and sustainability practice.

Bill is a visiting scholar at Duke University and a natural resources policy consultant.  At Duke, Ross is part of a special partnership between the Nicholas School of the Environment and Duke's cancer program.  The partnership explores environmental links to cancer in an effort to improve people’s health and the quality of the environment.   

As a natural resources policy consultant, Bill has worked on innovative ways to conserve, protect, and sustain natural resources while also meeting economic, social, and national defense objectives.  Two examples of that work are America’s Longleaf, an initiative to restore longleaf pine across the southeast, and Veridea, the proposed sustainable, mixed-use, transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly development in Apex. 

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