Aaron Isherwood

AARON ISHERWOOD

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Aaron Isherwood is the Philip S. Berry managing attorney for the Environmental Law Program at the Sierra Club where he has worked to fight destructive coal mining and coal exports. He graduated from the University of Chicago and the University of Oregon School of Law.

After graduating from college, Aaron spent a summer on the "slime line" in an Alaskan cannery, and eventually landed at Greenpeace in Chicago, where he worked for over 3 years. Aaron decided to go to law school when he learned from a prominent forest activist that court injunctions have saved more ancient forests than tree spikes. Before joining the Sierra Club as an associate attorney in 1999, Aaron clerked for the honorable Robert Durham of the Oregon Supreme Court, and also worked for the San Francisco-based law firm Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger.