Featured Member: Bill Chaney

  Employer: Gray Reed & McGraw LLP Education and Work Experience: J.D., Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law (1977) B.A., Trinity University (1974) How did you get interested/involved in agriculture law? My interest in agricultural law was an outgrowth of work in the early to mid-2000s in spray drift claims for tomato and vegetable […]

AALA 2019 President’s Address

Greetings AALA Members! I hope you join my excitement as we announce the launch of the registration for the 2019 Annual AALA Educational Symposium and CLE – our 40th Anniversary Celebration! President-Elect Mike Traxinger and his Planning Committee team have been hard at work over the last 8 months, and the program is one that […]

AALA Announces New Executive Director

Scott Heidner names New Executive Director The American Agricultural Law Association (AALA) is excited to announce that it has recently selected Scott Heidner, of Braden Heidner Lowe, to serve as its next Executive Director. Mr. Heidner officially started on April 15, 2019. The Executive Director position was vacated last fall, after former Executive Director Maureen […]

AALA Congratulates Anne Hazlett on New White House Post

On Feb. 7, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Jim Carroll announced Anne Hazlett as the office’s senior adviser for rural affairs. Previously Anne has served as  Chief Counsel to the Majority on the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, to lead the Rural Development agencies at […]