During his time with the Justice Department, Mr. Geldermann served as lead trial counsel in the federal government's multi-decade landmark dispute with the State of Florida over the State's cleanup of phosphorus pollution in the Florida Everglades (United States v. South Florida Water Management District, No. 88-1886 (S.D. Fla.)  He also successfully prosecuted a federal preemption challenge to the County of Los Angeles' interference with Bureau of Land Management sales of mineral materials to a private construction company in CEMEX v. County of Los Angeles, No. 02-747-DT-FMOx (C.D. Cal.).

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       Mr. Geldermann is a graduate cum laude of the University of Baltimore School of Law (May 1980).  He was a member of that institution's Heuisler Honor Society, and a contributing author and staff member of the University of Baltimore Law Review.  He has also co-authored professional articles in a number of treatises.  Mr. Geldermann is also an alumnus of the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, where has graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, and an alumnus of the Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, Maryland.