39th Environmental Permitting Summer School

KATHLEEN TOOLAN currently serves as Special Counsel for Environmental Affairs at the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). She has held this position since 2016, when she was appointed in conjunction with her effort to achieve FDOT’s NEPA Assignment. Prior to this appointment, she served as Chief Counsel for FDOT’s Administrative Law Section. Before joining FDOT, Kathleen practiced with the law firm of Levin, Papantonio concentrating on environmental law, mass torts, securities fraud and class action litigation. Kathleen also spent eleven years as an Assistant General Counsel with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and received her J.D. from Florida State University College of Law, where she served as an editor on the Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law.