Experience

• Assist Alaska Native regional corporations with issues related to their lands and resources, including helping an Alaska Native corporation protect its correlative rights before the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
• Represent public utilities, pipeline carriers, and other parties before the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, including assisting with certificate acquisitions and transfers, tariff, revenue requirement, rate design, consumer complaint, and deregulatory issues.
• Advise renewable energy developers on permitting projects in Alaska, including regulatory issues.
• Represent shipper on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Regulatory Commission of Alaska on Quality Bank issues.
• Represented a nonprofit health care entity before the Regulatory Commission of Alaska to alter a tariff to allow it to operate distributed generation on-site.
• Provided due diligence and other assistance related to the purchase and sale of natural resource assets.
• Assisted oil and gas exploration company in obtaining financing for natural gas development in Cook Inlet.
• Advised natural resources clients in obtaining permits and other governmental approvals for the first non-conditional state right-of-way for a North Slope natural gas pipeline, in early negotiations for Alaska’s first third-party natural gas storage facility, and in relation to legislation necessary to create a state right-of-way for (and economic regulation of) a contract carrier pipeline.

Honors & Activities

Professional Honors and Activities

• Selected as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” (Alaska) by Chambers USA (Natural Resources & Environment), 2005–present
• Named by Best Lawyers^® as Oil & Gas Law “Lawyer of the Year,” Anchorage, 2021, 2022 and 2024
• Included in The Best Lawyers in America^® (Oil & Gas Law), 2018–present
• Listed in Alaska Super Lawyers^® (Environmental, Energy & Natural Resources, Utilities, Native American Law), 2021–present
• TerraLex Board Member (November 2020–present); Member, Women’s Global Connection Committee (2017–present); Member, Meetings Committee (2015–present), Chair (2019–present)
• Co-Reporter for Alaska, Water Law Newsletter, The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law, 2020–present
• Member, Site Selection Committee, The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law, 2023
• Listed in the Alaska Business Legal Elite, 2023
• Co-Founding Member, Arctic Law Section, Alaska Bar Association, Co-Chair, 2015–2021
• Executive Committee Member, Alaska Bar Association, Environmental/Natural Resources section, 2014–2015
• Board Member (Alternate), Alaska Legal Services Corporation, 2003–present
• Member, Alaska Legal Services Corporation Fundraising Committee, 2014–present
• Board Member specializing in utility law, Anchorage Water & Wastewater Utility, 2006–2008
• Board Member, Alaska Pro Bono Program, 2005–2006
• Board Member & RSVP Chair, Anchorage Association of Women Lawyers, 2003–2007; Member, 2003–2009, & 2013–present
• National Institute for Trial Advocacy Seminar Graduate, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 1997

Civic Activities

• Co-chair (2012–2013, 2018–2020) and Member, United Way Tocqueville Society Committee, 2012–present; Member, United Way Campaign Cabinet (2018–2020)
• Member, Go Red for Women Executive Leadership Team, 2016–2020
• Volunteer, Habitat for Humanity, 2016
• Member, University of Alaska Seawolf Basketball Captains for the Great Alaska Shootout, 2015–2017
• Member, YWCA Women of Achievement Selection Committee, 2013
• Table Captain, Camp Fire, 2013
• Member, YWCA Women of Achievement Coordinating Committee, 2002–2010
• Volunteer, Abused Women Aid In Crisis Summer Solstice, 1997–2006; organizing committee member 2003 & 2004
• Volunteer Legal Advisor, Anchorage Youth Court, 1995–1999

Insights & Presentations

• “In Alaska, Non-Public Waters Within National Park Boundaries Cannot be Regulated by the NPS as if They Were Part of the Park,” Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (RMMLF) Water Law Newsletter, Volume LIII, Number 1, 2020
• “Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation Issues No Action Assurance Memorandums in Response to COVID-19 Caused Non-Compliance Concerns” (co-author), Stoel Rives LLP legal alert, April 1, 2020
• “Alaska Tightens Restrictions on Intrastate Travel and Social Distancing” (co-author), Stoel Rives LLP legal alert, March 29, 2020
• “5 Things Alaska Businesses and Travelers to Alaska Need to Know about Mandatory Self-Quarantine,” Stoel Rives LLP legal alert, March 26, 2020
• “How Energy Development is Adapting to Climate and Other Challenges in the Arctic and Beyond” (moderator), Sixth Annual Arctic Encounter Symposium, April 26, 2019
• “Diversity & Inclusion Metrics—Tracking What We Care About,” TerraLex 2018 Global Meeting, Managing Partner Roundtable, October 3, 2018
• “Breaking Ground—Oil and Gas Development in the Arctic” (moderator), 4th Annual Arctic Encounter Symposium, April 14, 2017
• “The Arctic as an Emerging Law Practice,” Polar Law Symposium, September 25, 2015
• “Ethical and Legal Obligations of Land Professionals,” Alaska Association of Professional Landmen, March 17, 2015
• “Negotiating Skills for Women Lawyers,” Anchorage Association of Women Lawyers, June 24, 2014

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