John Cruden served as a senior leader on environment and natural resource matters at the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) for more than two decades. He supervised some of the department's most significant litigation, including the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Love Canal, and Bunker Hill litigation. As the Senate-confirmed, Assistant Attorney General, ENRD, John worked on the most high-profile environment cases, and personally negotiated the multi-billion dollar resolutions of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the Volkswagen emissions scandal. John has served as the President of the Environmental Law Institute, Chair of the American Bar Association Section on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, and as President of the American College of Environmental Lawyers