Volume
36
Issue
5
![Tom FitzGerald, The Lawyer Who Came in From the Outside Tom FitzGerald, The Lawyer Who Came in From the Outside](/sites/default/files/styles/max_250_x_250/public/forum/fitzgerald-brief.png?itok=kgaf4_Ci)
PROFILE ❧ A crusading public interest attorney in rural Appalachia, Tom FitzGerald was appointed to the commission overseeing water quality in the Ohio River. When the interstate panel tried to eliminate its successful standardsetting, he used his new insider status to instead strengthen the program.
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