FREDERICK R. ANDERSON

ANDERSON FREDERICK RANDOLPH ANDERSON Of Chevy Chase, Maryland, and Teasdale, Utah, died peacefully with his family at his side July 14, 2014, from amiodarone pulmonary toxicity. He was 73. Fred was an attorney, law school dean, founder of one of the first national environmental nonprofits, novelist, and loving husband and father. Fred was an environmental law pioneer, whose ideas and efforts helped define the field of environmental law. He was the founding president of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), one of the earliest national environmental think tanks, dean of American University's Washington College of Law (WCL), and professor of law at WCL and the University of Utah. While at ELI and beyond he recruited and mentored many young lawyers and economists who carry on in his spirit a creative and multidisciplinary approach to environmental law. Fred authored the first book on the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 and numerous books, chapters and articles on environmental law, policy, economics and science. He continued to define environmental and energy law as a law partner at both McKenna Long & Aldridge and Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft. Fred was the founding board chair of CIEL (Center for International Environmental Law) and IGSD (Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development). He was a board member of a number of National Academy of Science committees and panels, including on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate and Science, Technology and Law. Fred studied and loved the sciences and was as comfortable discussing the Large Hadron Collider as administrative law. Fred was an avid birder and hiker and spent as much time as possible at his beloved Fish Creek Ranch in the mountains of southern Utah. He had a great love of the wild places of West Virginia and is remembered by many locals there for his legal efforts to preserve what is now Otter Creek Wilderness. He also wrote fiction. His first novel, Falling Together, was published in 2011. He had recently completed a satirical novel, Washington: A Fantasy. Fred received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, a B.A. in Jurisprudence from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead Scholar. Fred graduated from Central High School, Rutherfordton, NC. During his senior year he attended the Lycée Joffre in Montpelier, France, as an AFS exchange student, where he met life-long friends and initiated his love of French culture and language. Fred was born June 28, 1941, in Rutherfordton, NC, the first son of Eugenia (Meeler) and Frederick R. Anderson, Sr. He is survived by Barbara Alison Rose, his wife of 23 years, his daughter Molly Elizabeth Rose Anderson, his brother Richard M. Anderson and seven nieces and nephews. Fred lived a full and good life, defined by achievement, love of family, and dedication to friends. We will miss his razor-sharp intellect, good judgment, sense of humor and the twinkle in his eye. Private gatherings of family and friends will be held in Maryland, Utah and North Carolina. A public memorial will be held at a later date.