As a senior environmental attorney with the Charlotte law firm of Moore & Van Allen, Tom Mullikin leads the firm’s Government, Policy and Regulatory Affairs Team. His practice focuses on corporate compliance, regulatory relations and legislative representation. Tom’s career spans more than twenty years and includes key legislative staff roles, direct legislative advocacy, extensive environmental legal representation and management of environmental and energy issue campaigns for industry.

Tom works with clients to address the practical social, political, and environmental impacts of climate change. He has been recognized as a Distinguished Lecturer on climate change at the Illinois’ Governors State University and at Loyola University New Orleans, and presented in the University of the Ozarks Distinguished Speaker Series. He has spoken on the intersection of the economy and our environmental challenges at international conferences in Australia, Russia, and the Czech Republic, and across the United States in conjunction with industry associations and state and regional chambers of commerce.

In 2005, Tom led a team of researchers and environmental experts on an Antarctica expedition studying the effects of climate change on the polar regions. He told the story of this expedition in a video documentary, Climate Change: Global Problems, Global Solutions, which received widespread acclaim in both business and environmental circles, and was broadcast on New Hampshire Public Television, with a Boston-area viewership of more than 2.4 million households. He has led subsequent expeditions to the Namib Desert of Africa, the Amazon River Basin of Peru, and the Great Barrier Reef of Australia to highlight the global effects of climate change.

Tom is the author of Global Solutions: Demanding Total Accountability for Climate Change, Truck Stop Politics: Understanding the Emerging Force of Working Class America, and Sportsman Environmentalist. He has been widely published in both legal and mainstream periodicals, including UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Campaigns and Elections Magazine, South Carolina Jurisprudence, Navigating the Government Contracts Process, andVital Speeches of the Day. Further, he has been quoted for his experience in both the law and the environment by Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Associated Press, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, Charlotte Observer, Richmond Times Dispatch, Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald, Duluth News Tribune, Hibbing Daily Tribune, Wichita Eagle, San Antonio Express News, Spectrum & Daily News, Business North, Business News Publishing Co., Rocky Mountain News, Salt Lake Tribune, Post and Courier, Hamilton Spectator, Natural Awakenings Charlotte, and Huntinamibia.

Tom previously served as Chief Counsel and Vice President for Public Affairs to the largest environmental services company in the world. He has served on state legislative and congressional staff, and as an advisor and campaign manager to senior members of Congress and U.S. Presidential candidates from both the Republican and Democratic parties.

Tom formerly served with the United States Army Judge Advocate General Corps, USAR, where he served as the Assistant Staff Judge Advocate for the 360th Civil Affairs Brigade (Airborne), United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations, United States Army Special Operations Command. For his service, he was awarded, among other honors, the Meritorious Service Medal, Army Achievement Medal, and Global War on Terror Service Medal. He has also received the Order of the Palmetto, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the State of South Carolina.