Newsmakers: Christopher Pepper joins Winstead

Environmental attorney Christopher B. Pepper (pictured) joined Winstead in Austin as a shareholder Jan. 22.

Pepper represents clients in a wide range of environmental matters. He says he represents rock mines and handles air quality work for the ready-mix industry, feed mills and companies that produce fertilizer and crop protection chemicals. He says he also serves as general counsel for the Texas Aggregates and Concrete Association.

“I love my work,” Pepper says. “I was in a rock quarry all day Friday.”

Pepper, a 2001 graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law, says he was a senior research associate with the Institute of Environmental and Human Health in Lubbock from 2001 to 2003 and was a staff attorney at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality from 2003 to 2005. He says he was a partner in Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend in Austin before joining Winstead.

Pepper says he is a member of several organizations, including Texas Ag Industries Association, Texas Grain and Feed Association and Texas Seed Association.

— Mary Alice Robbins

Robbins is an Austin-based freelance writer and a former Texas Lawyer senior reporter.