Samuel Hudgens is a Wildfire Policy Legal Fellow at the Stanford Law School Environmental & Natural Resources Law & Policy Program and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment’s Climate and Energy Policy Program.

Samuel is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico. He studied ecosystem science and sustainability at Colorado State University in Fort Collins and earned his Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. Following law school, Samuel worked in the United States Senate as a NOAA Sea Grant John A. Knauss Fellow. During this time, he covered environment, energy, and agriculture issues for Senator Cory Booker.