Gale Norton

Secretary of Interior under George W Bush

The Justice Department announced in Dec. 2010 that it would not file charges against Norton in connection with oil shale bids by Royal Dutch Shell. At issue were valuable oil shale leases that Shell won from Interior after Norton left the George W. Bush administration in March 2006 but before she took a job as a lawyer with the oil giant that December.

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Business Positions

Royal Dutch Shell Global oil and gas corp

• General Council, oil exploration and production business (Jan '07→?)

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP U.S. lobbying and law firm with 13 offices, 250 attorneys and policy consultants

• Senior Counsel ('99→'01)

Board Memberships

Liberty Oilfield Services Provides hydraulic fracturing services to offshore oil & natural gas exploration. Revenues are $2 billion.

• Board member ('19→?)

Positions

Mountain States Legal Foundation Right-wing legal foundation created by Colorado brewer Joseph Coors to protect property rights

• Senior Attorney ('79→'83)

Government Positions

Department of the Interior federal agency responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources

• Assistant Solicitor (past) [+1]

• Secretary of the Interior ('01→'06)

Colorado Department of Law

• Attorney General ('91→'99)

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

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George W Bush 43rd US president, ex-governor of Texas, son of George H W Bush

• 4 contributions · 2,000 USD ('99→'04)

Don Stenberg R - Nebraska

• 2 contributions · 1,290 USD ('99→'00)

Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee

• 1 contribution · 1,000 USD ('00)

John McCain US Senator and Representative from Arizona

• 1 contribution · 1,000 USD ('08)

Gale Norton Secretary of Interior under George W Bush

• 1 contribution · 790 USD (Jun 1 '95)

Lisa Murkowski US Senator from Alaska

• 1 contribution · 500 USD (Nov 14 '09)

RNC Republican National State Elections Committee

• 1 contribution · 380 USD ('00)

William H Frist US Senator from Tennessee

• 1 contribution · 300 USD (Jul 24 '00)

Mike Coffman Former US Representative from Colorado

• 1 contribution · 300 USD (Feb 19 '14)

Slade Gorton US Senator from Washington

• 1 contribution · 300 USD ('00)

Campaign Donors

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Jan Laitos Professor, University of Denver Law School

• 2 contributions · 2,000 USD ('95→'96)

Herbert L Fenster Senior Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP

• 2 contributions · 2,000 USD ('96)

Alinda Hill Wikert daughter of Margaret Hunt Hill

• 2 contributions · 2,000 USD ('96)

Allan Phipps Denver attorney; with his brother Gerald owner of Denver Broncos AFL/NFL foorball franchise

• 5 contributions · 1,700 USD (Jun 27 '95→Apr 24 '96)

Dan Ritchie Ex University of Denver Chancellor and major Denver area donor

• 1 contribution · 1,000 USD ('95)

William Perry Pendley Acting BLM director, former Mountain States Legal Foundation head, longtime sagebrush rebel; Trump nomination to make Pendley BLM director withdrawn September 2020

• 3 contributions · 1,000 USD (Nov 11 '95→Jul 10 '96)

G Jackson Tankersley Jr

• 1 contribution · 1,000 USD ('95)

Marlene Malek wife of Fred Malek

• 2 contributions · 1,000 USD ('96)

Nancy Anschutz Homemaker; wife of billionaire Phil Anschutz

• 1 contribution · 1,000 USD ('96)

Denise Bode Lobbyist; partner Michael Best Strategies, former CEO of the American Wind Energy Association

• 1 contribution · 1,000 USD ('96)

Memberships

Federalist Society An organization of conservatives and libertarians seeking reform of the current American legal system in accordance with a textualist or originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

• Member

Republican Party The U.S. Republican Party

• Member

Schools

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

• Graduate (?→'78)

University of Denver private research university in Denver, Colorado

• Undergraduate (?→'75)