Cathleen Douglas Stone

Cathleen Douglas Stone is a lawyer and longtime environmental activist. Currently, she is a special assistant for environment to Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and a city representative to the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership, a consortium of public and private agencies overseeing the development of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. From 1994-2000, Cathy served as the City of Boston’s first chief of Environmental Services, in Mayor Menino’s cabinet. In that position, she supervised the Transportation Department, the Inspectional Services Department, and the Water and Sewer Commission, as well as some aspects of the Public Works and Recreation departments. Cathy has been active in Sustainable Boston, a group charged with creating sustainable development in Boston. In 1996, Cathy attended a White House conference on the environment and was asked by then-Vice President Gore to develop ‘indicators’ of sustainability, using Boston as the focus. Cathy is a past partner of the Boston law firm of Foley, Hoag and Eliot where her practice encompassed environmental and administrative law issues. She held an Institute of Politics Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School in 1984. She earned a BA in 1969 from Marylhurst College, a JD in 1972 from American University, and an LLM from Georgetown University in 1974.