Josh Marks is the Founder and Managing Partner of GreenMark Law, LLC, a boutique law firm and consultancy that assists corporations, NGOs, and academic institutions with renewable energy, environmental compliance, natural resource protection, real estate development, and sustainability. He is also the President of Georgians for the Okefenokee, a state-wide organization focused on protecting the Okefenokee Swamp from proposed strip mining along its eastern boundary.

Prior to GreenMark, Josh was the Co-Chair of the Sustainability Practice Group at Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, a 280-attorney national firm, where he advised utility-scale solar companies with project due diligence, development, contracting and acquisitions; assisted corporations, trade associations and universities with starting and navigating their sustainability journeys and ESG compliance; and numerous corporate entities with all manner of compliance issues. Prior to Parker Poe, Josh chaired the environmental and sustainability practice group at a leading real estate and environmental law boutique in Atlanta, where among other projects he served as outside general counsel to the largest private landowner in the United States and assisted utility-scale solar and wind project developers with project due diligence and implementation.

Earlier in his career, Josh worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Regional Counsel in Atlanta and clerked for the Honorable Wendy Shoob in Georgia’s Fulton County Superior Court. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Josh held a variety of environmental advocacy, public policy, and political campaign roles, one of which involved leading the successful effort to protect the Okefenokee Swamp from strip mining in the 1990s.

Josh and his wife, Hedy, live in Sandy Springs and are parents to three children ages 25, 22, and 17