Tokesha Collins is an associate in the Baton Rouge office of Kean Miller. She joined the firm in 2008 and practices in the environmental law group.  Her practice involves most aspects of environmental regulatory law, including permitting, compliance, enforcement, and transactional issues, as well as environmental litigation matters.  Prior to law school, Tokesha was a highway engineer for the Louisiana and Texas Departments of Transportation where she designed roadway, drainage and other highway projects. 

Education

Tokesha earned her J.D., with a concentration in Environmental Law, from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2008. While in law school, Tokesha was the Presidential Scholar, as well as a Notes and Comments Editor of the Journal of Business and Technology law. She earned her Master of Science in Environmental Planning and Management from Louisiana State University in 2005. Tokesha earned her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Brown University in 2001.

Admissions

• Admitted, Louisiana, 2008
• United States District Courts in Louisiana, 2008
  
• United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, 2008

Memberships

• Baton Rouge, Louisiana State and Federal Bar Associations
• Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society
• Massachusetts-State-Certified Engineer-in-Training, 2001

Articles, Presentations and Publications

• Thesis: An Analysis of the Variables that Influence a Country’s Decision to Ratify the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.