Bar Admissions: Bar Admissions: TX and DC; CO (inactive)
Jessica Townsend is an Associate at Eubanks & Associates, PLLC, which she joined in 2022. Previously, Jessica served as an associate attorney in the Rocky Mountain office of Earthjustice where she litigated cases under the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act, among others. During her tenure at Earthjustice, she served as co-counsel on a precedent-setting case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, which was the first to recognize an agency’s obligation to assess the social cost of carbon when evaluating climate change impacts. Jessica also spent time in IP and business litigation at a private firm and as a freelance attorney for both private and non-profit clients.
Jessica received her J.D., with distinction, from Stanford Law School in 2008, where she was a member of both the Stanford Law Review and the Stanford Environmental Law Journal. While at Stanford, Jessica worked in the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic, led an ELJ-sponsored conference on climate change litigation, and spent her summers clerking at Earthjustice and the Sierra Club Environmental Law Program.
Prior to attending law school, Jessica earned a Master’s in Environmental Science in 2005 from the Yale School for the Environment, where her master’s project entailed a policy analysis of unregulated mountain lion hunting in Texas. She also obtained a B.S. in Mathematics, with high honors, and a B.A. in Plan II Studies (a liberal arts honors program), with highest honors, from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002.
In her spare time, Jessica enjoys hiking, camping, and visiting as many national parks as she can with her husband, Aaron, and their three children.