Jon Welner

Jon Welner, ’89, JD ’95, is a leading environmental and land use lawyer in California. He is a partner in the San Francisco office of Crowell & Moring LLP. Jon has 30 years of experience addressing environmental regulatory challenges and resolving land development disputes for businesses and local governments in California. He is a member and former chair of the Executive Committee of the Environmental Law Section of the San Francisco Bar Association, and an advisor to the Executive Committee of the Environmental Law Section of the California Lawyers Association. 

Jon is the elected mayor of Tiburon and has served for eight years on the Town Council. Prior to that, he served for six years on the Tiburon Planning Commission, including as chair and vice chair. In addition, previously, he was a senior official at the California Natural Resources Agency. Jon serves on numerous non-profit boards, including the John Gardner Fellowship Association and the Stanford-in-Government Advisory Board. He served for many years as president and board member of the Marin Jewish Community Center, and prior to that, as a board member of Congregation Rodef Sholom in San Rafael, California.

While at Stanford, Jon served as chair of Stanford-in-Government. He was a member of the founding class of Stanford-in-Washington (“The Pioneers!”). He was a Truman Scholar and a John Gardner Fellow. Jon spent his Fellowship working in the newly formed Congressional office of World Wildlife Fund in Washington, DC. At Stanford Law, Jon served as president of the Environmental Law Society and was an associate editor of the Stanford Law Review.

Jon lives with his wife Pamela in Tiburon, California, where they raised their three children, Mira, Benji, and Naomi.