May 03 2008
About Greg
Gregory Hile is the founder and president of EnviroJustice. Before joining EnviroJustice, Greg practiced law in Southern California for twelve years, focusing on land use, environmental and the law of politics, and was principal of a political management and a communications firm, both specializing in working with nonprofit and grassroots organizations on environmental matters.
Greg is ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), has joint ministerial partnership standing in the United Church of Christ, has pastored congregations in Northern California, and has served the church in a variety of positions at the local, regional and national level. Currently, he is a member of First Christian Church in Concord, California.
He has a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Irvine, a J.D. from Loyola Law School, an M.A. from Pacific School of Religion, and has undertaken graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union. Greg has published two scholarly articles and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco Theological Seminary.
Greg has long been involved in community affairs. He was a member and president of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Association for Retarded Citizens, has served as a judge pro tempore in two Southern California courts and as a bar association fee arbitrator. He served as Chair of Citizens for Sensible Growth and Traffic Control, at the time the largest local ballot initiative measure in American history. Greg has served as a member of the Citizens Advisory Committee of the United Way of Orange County and as a member on the Orange County Health Planning Council.
Greg has led workshops on using financial institutions to support environmental justice, corporate energy campaigning, technology and the churches, planning a retreat, writing congregational and denominational history, alternative worship services, and the ethical, legal, and social implications of the Human Genome Initiative. He has made approximately 100 speeches and/or appearances before civic, political and professional groups regarding land use, environmental and managed growth issues, and has been interviewed more than one hundred times for a number of radio, television, newspaper and magazine stories regarding particular legal cases, political campaigns or on land use, environmental and managed growth issues.
Greg is particularly proud of his wife Lynne, sons Michael and Justin, and his daughters Lindsay, Emily and Katie, but he is also pretty impressed with his ability to catch piranha on the Xingu River in the Amazonian Brazil. By the way, that’s where the picture on the home page came from: sunset on the Xingu River taken back in October, 2005.
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