As of January 2022, the SERL program has a new director: Warigia M. Bowman, Ph.D.
Bowman holds a doctorate in policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. An honors graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, Bowman clerked for Justice Jack Hightower of the Texas Supreme Court and served as an Honors Trial Attorney in the Wildlife and Marine Section of the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice under Attorney General Janet Reno. She has also served as a consultant to UN Women, the Government of Kenya, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. State Department. She has also served as chair of the Arkansas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
Before joining TU Law, Bowman taught at the American University in Cairo, during the Revolution of 2011, as well as at the University of Mississippi, the University of Arkansas and Kabarak University in Kenya. Bowman was awarded tenure by TU Law on Dec. 16, 2021.
Bowman has a strong interest in infrastructure, broadly defined. Her environmental interests include the protection of aquifers in Oklahoma and the Southwest region, as well as the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy and ensuring that residents of Indian Country, the Mexican border and the Appalachians have access to electricity, clean and affordable water and the internet.
Her recent publications include “Dust in the Wind,” University of Kansas Law Review; “The Big Cough, Covid-19, Coal and the Navajo Nation,” forthcoming in the Hastings Law Journal; “Dustbowl Waters,” University of Colorado Law Review; and “Oklahoma Renewable Energy Hits a Covid Roadblock,” Texas A & M Journal of Oil and Gas.