Blumm, Michael C.
Biographical note
Michael Charles Blumm was born in in Detroit, Michigan, in 1950. He attended the University of Virginia and Williams College in Massachusetts. He then taught high school in Tucson, Arizona, for a year, before attending law school in Washington, D.C. He worked as an attorney for the Environmental Protection Agency, then he became a law professor at Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, in 1978. He was editor of the Natural Resources Law Institute’s Anadromous Fish Law Memo, and during the 1990s, he was also co-director of the Northwest Water Law and Policy Project.
Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Blumm in his interview; Blumm's faculty page, Lewis and Clark Law School website (undated, accessed February 2026), https://law.lclark.edu/live/profiles/250-michael-blumm