Jennifer L. Frozena
Of Counsel
Olympia
Direct Line: (360) 786-5044
[email protected]
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Jennifer's practice focuses on hydropower licensing and compliance, water rights, water resource management, Indian law, and other natural resource and environmental matters.
Prior to joining Cascadia, Jennifer was an attorney for the Department of the Interior (Interior). She has over two decades’ experience working with Tribes, federal and state agencies, and private companies on issues pertaining to federal reserved water rights, hydropower licensing, federal irrigation projects, cultural resources, the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Jennifer previously worked as a policy advisor for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission on hydropower licensing matters impacting the Columbia River treaty Tribes.
Professional Experience
Counsel clients on hydropower licensing and compliance.
Represent clients in complex negotiations and administrative adjudications before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
Represent and advise clients on water resource issues and water rights matters.
Advise clients on a wide array of natural resource and cultural resource matters.
While at Interior, Jennifer counseled agency staff and leadership through the process that resulted in the removal of the Lower Klamath Hydroelectric Project, the largest dam removal effort in history.
Jennifer also served on four Indian water rights teams and helped negotiate and defend the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ landmark $1.9 billion water rights settlement.
Former law clerk at the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.
Select Presentations & Articles
Co-Author, “Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Water Rights Compact Ratification,” published in The Water Report, January 2022
Speaker, Northwest Hydroelectric Association’s Fall Hydro Camp, September 2021
Speaker, Native American Rights Fund/Western States Water Council’s Symposium on the Settlement of Indian Reserved Water Rights Claims, August 2021
Education
J.D., University of Oregon School of Law, 1999 - Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law
B.S. in Biology, Marquette University, 1995
Bar Admissions
Oregon
