Sawyer Connelly

Before joining Parsons Behle & Latimer, Sawyer served as a law clerk for the Honorable Brian M. Morris, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana.

Sawyer received his J.D. from the University of Montana School of Law, where he graduated with Honors. Sawyer served as editor-in-chief of the Public Land and Resources Law Review while in law school and served as a teaching assistant for constitutional law and legal research and writing.  

Before starting law school, Sawyer spent six years working in public lands policy for various NGOs, state government and the federal government. Prior to his work in public lands policy, he was a fly-fishing guide in Colorado and Norway. 

Sawyer enjoys spending time with his wife and friends exploring Montana’s forests and rivers and bird hunting with his two bird dogs.