John W. Andrews
Snell & Wilmer has hired John W. Andrews for its Salt Lake City office as counsel in the firm's environmental and natural resources practice group. Andrews has more than 30 years of experience in public lands, real estate, minerals and Native American law issues, including as a former chief legal counsel and associate director for the State of Utah's School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA). Prior to SITLA, Andrews was a shareholder in the Salt Lake City law firm Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy. Andrews currently serves on the Royalty Policy Committee for the U.S. Department of the Interior and is also trustee-at-large for the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. Andrews' education includes earning his J.D. from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.
