Gray E. Norton

Gray Norton is a Clinical Instructor at the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC). She joined FLPC in January 2023 as a Clinical Fellow and previously worked with the clinic as a summer intern and research assistant. Gray’s portfolio focuses on FLPC’s Food System Justice, Food Access & Nutrition, and Climate & Sustainability initiatives. Through her commitment to helping communities build thriving local and regional food systems, she works on a range of issues, such as advancing farm to school programs and values-based procurement, strengthening child nutrition and nutrition assistance programs, and supporting systemically marginalized farmers and food system workers’ rights. She also supervises the Mississippi Delta Project, a Student Practice Organization at Harvard Law School.

Before joining FLPC, Gray served as an intern in the Office of General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and as a law clerk in the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. She was also an adjunct lecturer in the Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Arkansas, teaching Intro. to American National Government.

Gray holds a J.D., cum laude, a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Food & Agricultural Law, a Master of Public Administration, and a Graduate Certificate in Sustainability from the University of Arkansas. She is a licensed member of the Arkansas Bar.