Sheila Slocum Hollis

Practice Areas

Sheila Slocum Hollis is chair of the Washington, D.C. office, and was the office’s founding managing partner, as well as the founding practice group leader for the firm’s Energy, Environment and Resources Practice Group. She served on the firm’s Executive Committee for more than a decade and the Partners Board for 20 years. Ms. Hollis practices in the areas of energy transactional and regulatory law and international and administrative law before government agencies, Congress, state and Federal courts, and other entities. She focuses on domestic and international energy, water and environmental matters, representing governmental bodies, the power and natural gas industries, and other entities.

Career

Duane Morris LLP: Member, Executive Committee, 2008-2017, Member, Partners Board, 1997-2017, Chair, Washington, D.C. Office, Member, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (2005-present), Partner, 1997-2020, Of Counsel (2020-present), Founding Partner, Washington Office and of the Duane Morris Energy, Environment and Resources Practice Group (1999-2005); Metzger, Hollis, Gordon & Alprin, Washington, D.C.: Senior Partner, 1992-1997; Vinson & Elkins L.L.P., Washington, D.C.: Partner, 1987-1992, Head of Washington office Energy Practice; Broadhurst, Brook, Mangham and Hardy, Washington, D.C.: Partner, 1984-1987; Butler & Binion, Washington, D.C.: Partner, 1980-1984

Office of Enforcement of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.: First Director, 1977-1980; Senior Executive Service, U.S. Government: Charter Member, 1979-1980; Wilner & Scheiner, Washington, D.C.: Associate, 1975-1977; Federal Power Commission, Washington, D.C.: Trial Attorney, 1974-1975; International Typographical Union, Denver, CO: Journeyman Printer and Proofreader, 1968-1971

Professional Memberships

United States Energy Association; American Bar Association's Senior Lawyers Division; American Friends of the Royal Society; Center for American and International Law; Federal Bar Association; National Sustainability Advisory Committee, KB Homes, 2008-present

Personal

University of Denver College of Law, J.D., 1973; University of Colorado, B.S., Journalism, cum laude and with honors in overall studies, 1971