Chuck Holtman represents watershed districts and other public and private clients in water resource matters.
He serves as general counsel to clients including the Minnehaha Creek, Prior Lake-Spring Lake, Comfort Lake-Forest Lake and Clearwater River Watershed Districts and provides a range of legal services for the planning and administration of water resource management programs, land use regulation and land conservation, public drainage administration, and capital project development and implementation.
Mr. Holtman’s Minnesota water law practice spans over 50 years. Earlier, he served as an assistant attorney general for the State of New Hampshire for administrative, civil and criminal environmental litigation. As lead counsel to state wetlands, water resource and groundwater protection agencies, Mr. Holtman advised executive branch officials on legal and policy matters including ownership and management of state waters, regulatory protection of waters and wetlands, water rights allocation, and contaminated site remediation under state and federal laws. Subsequently, Mr. Holtman was counsel to the assistant administrator for hazardous materials transportation and emergency response at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S., M.S., Chemical Engineering, 1979University of Virginia School of Law
J.D., 1986; Executive Editor, Virginia Journal of Natural Resources Law
University of Tübingen, West Germany
Marshall Scholar in environmental and property law, 1987
University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute
M.A., Public Affairs, 1997
BAR ADMISSIONS
Minnesota
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit
PRACTICE AREAS
Water Resource Law
Public Law
Contracting and Construction Law