Shannon Dilley
Shannon Dilley started in the Legal Office at the California Air Resources Board in 2015, and since 2021, has served as one of the Assistant Chief Counsels. She is a member of the Abenaki Tribe in Vermont and has been instrumental in expanding CARB’s work with tribes; she helped create the tribal program and previously served as CARB’s Tribal Liaison. Shannon also became the California delegate for the Governor’s Climate and Forest Task, which identifies different approaches to help scale key climate policies and forest protections by local and regional jurisdictions in the U.S., Mexico, South America, Indonesia, and elsewhere. She has also resolved numerous enforcement cases, was part of the negotiation team for some of CARB’s largest vehicle enforcement cases, and she provided key strategic advice in various litigation matters.
Before Shannon moved to California, she practiced criminal law in Vermont as both a prosecutor and defense counsel. Shannon attended the University of Vermont and has an undergraduate degree, a masters degree, a law degree, and also an advanced law LLM degree in environmental law.