
Position Title
Affiliated Instructor
- Environmental Science & Policy
Tracy’s areas of interest include water rights, water quality, wildfire, the Public Trust Doctrine, environmental enforcement, negotiations, oral advocacy, and legal writing. She is a former Senior Assistant Attorney General for the California Attorney General’s Office, Natural Resources Law Section. There, she served as environmental litigation counsel for the State of California’s natural resources agencies from 1996-2025, advocating in state and federal courts in trial and appellate litigation. She has been a lecturer at U.C. Davis since 2005, where she currently teaches environmental law, water law, and negotiations courses. She also serves as co-director for the U.C. Davis School of Law's California Environmental Law and Policy Center.