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A. James Barnes (born August 30, 1942) is an American attorney who served in several senior management positions at the
United States Environmental Protection Agency The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it began operation on De ...
(EPA) and later as a dean and professor at
Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, IUB, or Indiana) is a public university, public research university in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. It is the flagship university, flagship campus of Indiana Univer ...
(IU). Barnes served as Chief of Staff to EPA Administrator
William Ruckelshaus William Doyle Ruckelshaus (July 24, 1932 – November 27, 2019) was an American attorney and government official. Ruckelshaus served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1966 to 1968, and was the United States Assistant Attorney General ...
when the agency was created in 1970. In the 1980s he was appointed General Counsel and later Deputy Administrator at EPA from 1985 to 1988. He also worked at the
United States Department of Agriculture The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and producti ...
and the
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. Barnes is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. At IU Barnes was Dean of the
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs The Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs is the public policy school, public policy and environmental studies school of Indiana University with locations on both the Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington and Indiana Uni ...
from 1988 to 2000, and subsequently he has been a professor of Law and Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Barnes, A. James 1942 births Living people People of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Indiana University Bloomington faculty