Mel Nutter

Mel Nutter has practiced law in Long Beach since 1965 with an emphasis on land use, environmental, estate planning and trust law. His official involvement in environmental matters commenced in the 1960s as the Chair and the Conservation Chair of the Long Beach Group of the Sierra Club. Thereafter, he chaired to Sierra Club’s Angeles Chapter Coastal Committee. From 1973 to 1977 he was the Chair of the City of Long Beach Citizens Advisory Environmental Committee.
From 1977 through 1985, thanks to appointments first by the State Senate Rules Committee and subsequently by the Speaker of the Assembly, he was a member of the California Coastal Commission and served as its Chair during the last three years of his tenure. As the Commission’s Chair, he also was on the Board of the State Coastal Conservancy.
Currently, Mel is the Chair of the League for Coastal Protection (a statewide citizen’s organization that engages in lobbying, advocacy and litigation), as well as the Vice Chair of the California Environmental Law Project. He joined the Board of LALCV in 1988 and was the organization’s president from 1993 to 1996.