Marie Kellner

Marie Callaway Kellner joins the faculty as a visiting professor and will teach first year Legal Writing and Analysis. She lives in Boise with her husband Jeff and their daughter Rory, a rising 4th grader. Marie loves all things outdoors, especially her garden and Idaho’s beautiful rivers.

Marie spent approximately ten years teaching middle school age students during the academic year and commercial river guiding in the summers before enrolling at the University of Idaho’s College of Law in 2007 where she focused on western water law & policy. After graduating in 2010, Marie held sequential clerkships with the Hon. Ronald J. Wilper in Idaho’s Fourth Judicial District and the Hon. Mikel Williams in Idaho’s U.S. District Court.

In 2012, Kellner joined the Idaho Conservation League’s staff as its first ever Water Associate, advocating for sufficient water quantity in Idaho’s lakes and rivers. In 2019, she became ICL’s Conservation Program Director, supervising the people and initiatives that drive all of ICL’s mission based work, as well as carrying a water rights caseload and coordinating ICL’s litigation.

In addition to her JD, Kellner holds a BA in Sociology and a MS Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Tennessee.