Adam R.F. Gustafson

Adam R.F. Gustafson is the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. He previously served as Deputy General Counsel in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. There, he oversaw both the Air and Radiation Law Office, which works to develop and defend air quality regulations, and the Cross-Cutting Issues Law Office, which provides counseling on administrative law, international, tribal, and other matters.

Mr. Gustafson is returning to federal service from Boeing, where he has served as Senior Counsel for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs since 2021. He also spent time in private practice, first as an associate at Cooper & Kirk and then at Boyden Gray & Associates, where he became a partner and led the firm’s environmental, regulatory, and constitutional litigation in federal and state courts of appeals and counseled the firm’s clients on regulatory matters and government affairs.

He graduated with high distinction from the University of Virginia and received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a Coker Fellow and recipient of the Joseph A. Chubb Competition Prize and Edward D. Robbins Memorial Prize as well as an editor of the Yale Law Journal and managing editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. Upon graduation, Mr. Gustafson clerked first for the Honorable Richard R. Clifton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then for the Honorable Janice Rogers Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.