Frederick H. Turner is an appellate attorney in the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. He represents the United States in federal appellate courts in cases arising under the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, among other statutes. Previously, Mr. Turner worked for nearly a decade in the Division’s Wildlife and Marine Resources Section, where he litigated cases in federal courts across the country, and for five years in the Division’s Law and Policy Section. He teaches courses in Wildlife and Ecosystems Law and Natural Resources Law.

Mr. Turner joined DOJ through the Honors Program after graduating from Georgetown University Law Center. At Georgetown Law, Mr. Turner served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review and as a Law Fellow in the Legal Research and Writing Program. Prior to law school, he spent several years in the magazine industry as an editor at Vanity Fair and a researcher at National Geographic Adventure, and he maintains a connection to publishing in his role as the Literary Resources Editor of Natural Resources & Environment, a quarterly magazine of the American Bar Association. Mr. Turner’s graduate work at Brandeis University focused on the intersection of environmental and legal history. He received his B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard College.