VITALS

Member, Minnesota State and Hennepin County Bar Associations

J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1986; Executive Editor, Virginia Journal of Natural Resources Law

Marshall Scholar in environmental and property law, University of Tübingen, West Germany, 1987

M.A., Public Affairs, University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute, 1997

B.S., M.S., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979

Chuck Holtman represents watershed districts and other public and private clients in water resource matters.

He serves as general counsel to clients including the Minnehaha Creek, Rice Creek, Comfort Lake-Forest Lake and Clearwater River Watershed Districts and provides a range of legal services for the planning and administration of water resource management programs, land use regulation and capital project development and implementation.

Mr. Holtman’s Minnesota water law practice spans over 20 years. Earlier, he served as an assistant attorney general for the State of New Hampshire for administrative, civil and criminal environmental litigation. As lead counsel to state wetlands, water resource and groundwater protection agencies, Mr. Holtman advised executive branch officials on legal and policy matters including ownership and management of state waters, regulatory protection of waters and wetlands, water rights allocation, and contaminated site remediation under state and federal laws. Subsequently, Mr. Holtman was counsel to the assistant administrator for hazardous materials transportation at the U.S. Department of Transportation and engaged in matters of departmental administration, regulatory enforcement, emergency response, and policymaking.