Michael Buschbacher

Partner

Boyden Gray & Associates PLLC

Michael Buschbacher is a partner at Boyden Gray & Associates PLLC. Before joining the firm, Mr. Buschbacher served at the U.S. Department of Justice as counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, where he advised senior Department leadership on the Division’s highest-profile environmental and regulatory matters, served as lead counsel in a number of lawsuits and negotiations, and was the principal drafter of significant policy memos that set forth the proper scope and procedure for the enforcement of federal environmental law. Prior to serving in the government, Mr. Buschbacher was an associate in the D.C. office of Sidley Austin LLP.

Mr. Buschbacher is a former clerk to Judge Alice M. Batchelder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and to Magistrate Judge Paul R. Cherry of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. He holds a B.A. in Music and Germanic Studies from Indiana University and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Notre Dame Law School, where he was the winner of the A. Harold Weber Moot Court Award and served as an Article Editor of the Notre Dame Journal of Law & Public Policy.