Richard D. Bach '66 retired in 2002 as a senior partner at Stoel Rives in Portland, specializing in environmental and natural resources within the firm's Environmental Practice Group, which he founded. His substantial experience includes licensing major industrial projects, advising clients with respect to compliance with environmental protection laws, and representing potentially responsible parties in cleanups. He is a frequent lecturer in environmental law seminars, chaired the Bar’s Natural Resources Committee, and served on the Board of Bar Examiners. Dick served as chairman of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s ("DEQ") Underground Storage Tank Advisory Committee, as a member of DEQ’s Remedial Action and Environmental Cleanup Advisory Committee, and as a member of DEQ’s Central Advisory Committee for the development of the regulatory program under Oregon’s new environmental cleanup statute. He also was appointed to the Oregon Economic Development Department’s Brownfields Funding Task Force. He is a member of the Portland City Club’s Growth Management and Environment Issues Committee, serves as president of the Board of Directors of the Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center, and was a member of the Advisory Committee to the State Land Board and the Utilities Air Regulatory Group. Active in the American Bar Association’s Section on Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law and chair of that Section’s Public Service Task Force, Dick is also a registered professional engineer in Oregon, on retired/inactive status. He has been honored as an environmental lawyer in every edition of The Best Lawyers in America since 1993 and was awarded the prestigious AOI Environmental Excellence Award in 1995.