Pamela Gagel

Pamela A. Gagel has been the Assistant Director of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver since IAALS opened on January 17, 2006.

Gagel served as a Denver District Court magistrate from June 1995 to December 1998 and as an Arapahoe District Court magistrate from February 2002 through June 2002. During the January 2000 through June 2004 time frame, she worked for the Colorado State Court Administrator’s Office on projects to implement improved practice, policies and procedures in the handling of family cases.

Gagel engaged in private practice in 2005 providing alternative dispute resolution services, representation in family law cases and child and family investigator services. Previously, Gagel was a staff attorney with Holme Roberts & Owen practicing in the areas of environmental and employment law, and an associate with Kobayashi and Associates practicing civil litigation primarily in federal court.

Gagel has taught classes at the Sturm College of Law, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and a child and family investigator training program. She has given numerous presentations on changes to Colorado family law procedures and written several articles on those new procedures.

Gagel presently serves as a member of the Legislative Policy Committee of the Colorado Bar Association and the Law Alumni Council of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. She is also on the boards of the Colorado Judicial Institute, Parenting After Divorce-Denver and the Donnell Initiative Fund.

Gagel was president of the Colorado Women’s Bar Association, co-chair of that association’s public policy committee and on the board of the Colorado Women’s Bar Association Foundation. She served on the Colorado Supreme Court Standing Committee on Family Issues from November 2002 through June 2005.

Gagel received her B.A. degree from the University of Denver in 1975 and her J.D. degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 1985.