Deborah A. “Debbie” Sivas ’87, director of the Environmental Law Clinic and lecturer in law, recently won an Award of Excellence from the Pit River Tribe for her advocacy on its behalf. The tribe, represented by the Stanford Legal Clinic, won a major victory to protect a sacred site near Medicine Lake in Northeastern California from energy development, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court ruling and rejected renewed energy leases made by the federal government to a private company. Sivas served as the counsel of record on the case.