About Meredith
Meredith Crafton built a career at the junction of law, energy and environmental policy. She came to the field through study of sustainability and social justice and a law degree that followed soon after.
She earned a B.A. in Sustainability Studies and Social Justice from Hampshire College in 2004. She then attended Vermont Law School and received her J.D. in 2012. Those formative years combined classroom study of environmental systems with practical legal training.
After law school, Crafton moved into public-interest practice. In 2012 she joined Hanford Challenge as a staff lawyer and advocacy coordinator. The role paired legal work with outreach and policy work aimed at issues tied to energy and environmental cleanup. That same year she expanded her practical training through an internship at the Conservation Law Foundation. Earlier, in 2011, she worked as a research associate at the Institute for Energy and the Environment, supporting research projects that fed into legal and policy discussions.
Her trajectory has included both practice and teaching. In 2022 she took on an adjunct professor role at The Colleges of Law. She also began serving as of counsel at Smith & Lowney, PLLC in 2022. Those positions reflect a mix of courtroom and classroom responsibilities and a return to legal advocacy in a private-firm setting.
Crafton is admitted to practice in Washington. Her work has been shaped by years spent on environmental matters, energy policy questions and the procedural contours of public-interest litigation. She has moved between research, litigation support and advocacy roles, and that varied background informs how she approaches cases and client work.
Colleagues describe her as methodical and attentive to the intersections between policy and litigated disputes. She balances technical material—reports, regulatory filings and scientific studies—with legal argument and procedural strategy. Her resume shows a steady progression from research and internships into staff attorney positions, then into of counsel status and part-time teaching.
Her current practice sits at Smith & Lowney, PLLC, where she serves as of counsel. She combines legal advocacy and policy-oriented work while maintaining ties to academic instruction and research. She currently practices at Smith & Lowney, PLLC, handling environmental and energy law matters.
