Pamela A. Gagel
Assistant Director
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 it 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’s private practice experience includes mediation, representation, and child and family investigator services in domestic relations cases. Her civil litigation experience includes practice in the areas of environmental and employment law as a staff attorney with Holme Roberts & Owen, and as an associate with Kobayashi and Associates practicing primarily in federal court.
Gagel has taught classes at the Sturm College of Law and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and has given numerous presentations on changes to Colorado family law procedures.
Gagel presently serves as a member of the Legislative Policy Committee of the Colorado Bar Association, the Law Alumni Council of the Sturm College of Law and the board of the Colorado Judicial Institute. Gagel is a past president of the Colorado Women’s Bar Association. 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 Sturm College of Law in 1985.
Honors received: 2006 Alumni Professionalism Award from Sturm College of Law; 2000 Metropolitan Volunteer Lawyers honoree
Pamela Gagel can be contacted at 303.871.6602 or at Pamela.Gagel@du.edu.