The Getches-Wilkinson Center is thrilled to announce that Sierra Meggitt received the 2024 Natural Resources Law Outstanding Student Award. Sierra is a rising 3L who has demonstrated a commitment to environmental and natural resources law and made significant contributions to the work of GWC, and she has a particular interest in the intersection of public lands and American Indian Law.
Sierra was inspired to attend law school because of her love of wild places and the human and non-humans that are interdependent with them. Since matriculating at Colorado Law School, Sierra has worked as a research assistant with GWC and as an intern for American Rivers and Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks. During the summer of 2024, Sierra continued to hone her legal skills to protect and defend the West鈥檚 public lands as a summer associate in the Portland, Oregon office of Advocates for the West. While there, she worked on case development and active litigation in the federal courts relating to public lands and wildlife habitat.
Sierra also won the Charles N. Woodfruff Fellowship in 2023, which recognizes a student from rural Colorado who demonstrates academic excellence in the practice of natural resources law. The Woodruff Fellowship supported Sierra鈥檚 work with the Getches-Wilkinson Center.
I was also lucky to spend two weeks in the Grand Canyon with Sierra this past spring as part of the Law of the River seminar. Sierra has a kind heart and an adventurous spirit, and she took to the river with ease.
Congratulations, Sierra! We are excited to follow your promising career.