Thomas D Hicks is the founder of Hicks Law, which specializes in California water rights, real property and conservation law. Hicks Law represents public interest organizations, landowners and others on public policy, transactional, and select administrative and litigation matters. Mr. Hicks is a recognized California and western regional expert in voluntary water rights transactions and instream transfers. He is water counsel on several 2014 Prop One Water Bond California Wildlife Conservation Board public interest project teams that enhance stream flow. Mr. Hicks was an energy and water policy analyst at the Natural Heritage Institute, and the founder and executive director of the Headwaters Institute. He has interned at the San Francisco Office of the City Attorney, California State Water Resources Control Board, and American Rivers. Mr. Hicks founded and chaired the inaugural California Water Law Symposium sponsored by leading northern California law schools, and is a board member. He is the author of the Water Education Foundation Layperson's Guide to Water Rights Law, recognized as the most thorough explanation of California water rights law available to non-lawyers. Mr. Hicks earned his B.A. degree from the University of Vermont and his J.D. degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law. He is admitted to practice in California and before the U.S. District Court for the Northern and Eastern districts of California.