Honors and Awards:

• Minnesota Super Lawyer selected by Law & Politics; MSBA Animal Law Section, special recognition; MSBA Computer Law Section, special recognition; MSBA for Service in the Assembly, recognition; Animal Arc, as Chair of MSBA Animal Law Committee; Michigan Bar Association, recognition; Leading American Attorney selected by American Research Corporation; Minnesota State Delegation to China; Gislason contributed to a new ABA book called ABA-TIPS Guide to Litigating Animal Law Disputes, publication pending; Client Counseling Competition, Law Student Division (Regional Winner); Fellow of American Bar Foundation; ABA-TIPS Innovation Awards for Animal Law Committee (Chaired Committee); American Bar Fellows People to People delegation to South Africa.

Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Admitted: 1988, U.S. Supreme Court, 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Cir., 1980, U.S. District Court Minnesota, 1980, Minnesota

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA): Animal Law Committee Founding Chair, Animal Law Section Founding Chair and Current Section Council; General Assembly, Legislative Committee and Voting Representative, Past; Family Law Section Continuing Legal Education Presenter and Legislation Committee Member; Art and Entertainment Law Section Founding Chair and Current Member, Art Law Committee, Past Chair; Computer Law Section Past Vice Chair, International Subcommittee, Past Chair; Bar-Media Committee, Past Symposium Chair and Member; State of Minnesota Law Day Committee, Past Chair; Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association Copyright Committee, Past Chair; Minnesota State Board of Law Examiners Advisory Panel, Past; Minnesota Women Lawyers Board, Past; Bar Admissions Committee, Chair, Past
• American Bar Association (ABA): Co-host of Legal TIPS on Legal Talk Radio, sponsored by ABA-TIPS; Founder and Past Chair of the ABA Animal Law Committee in the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, Current Vice Chair and Chair of Disaster Relief Subcommittee; Intellectual Property Law Committee Chair Elect, TIPS; Book Publishing Board, TIPS; National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, TIPS Advisor; ABA Special Committee on Disaster Response and Preparedness, TIPS Liaison

Pro bono/Community Service:

• In August 2008, she appeared in Producer/Director Kim Walsh's documentary Left Behind Without a Choice. She visited South Africa in 2008 as part of an American Bar Fellows People to People delegation, where she had an individual meeting with the Chief Executive Officer and lead veterinarian of Kruger National Park. Recently, she hosted two Legal TIPS podcasts for the Legal Talk Network on the subject of emergency management.
• Gislason serves on the U.S. Department of Justice Project Advisory Committee for the Regional Institute for Community Policing (RICP) Animal Rescue and Restore Project, and on the Animal Work Group for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security National Response Plan (NRP) revision. This committee is led by USDA's Allan Hogue and USDHA's Tom McGinn. Gislason's contributions to Animal Law were acknowledged in the New York Times and she has been featured in the ABA Journal, Minnesota Law & Politics, Maddie's Fund Newsletter and the book Rescued: Saving Animals from Disaster. She has been a contributor to the Animal Wise Radio program and a guest on national radio shows in the U.S. and abroad, and Dr. Phil McGraw called her "the top animal advocate in the country" on the Dr. Phil Show.
• Community Involvement: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advisor, Animal Work Group; American Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Advisory Board; U.S. Department of Justice, Advisory Panel, Animal Rescue and Restore Project; Minnesota Animal Disaster Coalition, Member; Horse Welfare Committee, Animal Humane Society, Member; Neighborhood Justice Board of Directors, Past; Minnesota Icelandic Association President, Past, Board Member, Current; Minnesota Film Arts Board of Directors, Past; Minnesota Opera Association Board of Directors, Past; Minnesota State Arts Board Advisory Panel, Past; Alexandra House for Battered Women Legal Panel, Past

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Presented Animal Law: An Overview at the Minnesota State Bar Association Animal Law Committee meeting; Presented National and International Trends in Animal Law at the Minnesota State Bar Association Annual Meeting and made presentation on endangered species, focusing on wolves and salmon, 2004
• Wrote Veterinary Malpractice: Leading the Evolution of Animal Law for TortSource, an ABA-TIPS publication; Wrote Recent Developments in Animal Tort and Insurance Law with Julie I. Fershtman for The Tort Trial & Insurance Law Journal; Wrote The Animal Law Committee: A New Commitment for TIPS and the ABA for an ABA-TIPS publication called The Brief; Keynoted at the annual meeting for the Minnesota Foundation for Responsible Animal Care (MN-FRAC), the largest agricultural consortium in Minnesota, with a speech titled Overview of Animal Law; Spoke on a hot issues panel at the Annual Minnesota Veterinary Association Meeting, which included Bernard E. Rollin; Spoke at the Minnesota State Bar Association Rural and Farm Institute on the subject of Animal Law; Presented Animal Law and Guardianship at the University of Minnesota Department of Science; Presented To Matter, Or Not To Matter at Midwest Fiction Writers Conference; Spoke on Animal Law at the Edina Rotary Club; Spoke on Animal Law for the Carleton College Minnesota Alumni Association; Presented Pet Custody: Do Best Interests Standards Apply? at the Minnesota State Bar Association Family Law Section's Annual Institute; Chaired a TIPS CLE program at the ABA Annual Meeting called It's A Dog's Life: What Does Tort and Insurance Law Have to Say About It? and also contributed a paper called Animal Law and the Momentum for Change, 2005
• Presented Disaster Relief Efforts of ABA-TIPS and Its Animal Law Committee at the Humane Society of the United States National Conference on Animals in Disaster; Spoke on Animal Law at the Golden Valley Rotary Club; Co-taught an Animal Law course at Hamline University School of Law which was the first time Animal Law was taught in a law school in Minnesota; Presented Animals in Crisis at the Virginia Animal Control Association Conference; Presented Animals in Disaster at the Michigan Animal Law symposium, which was co-sponsored by the State Bar of Michigan Animal Law Section and the Michigan Veterinary Medical Association; Wrote Vicious Dog Laws Unconstitutional in Ohio, which was distributed by Animal Arc; Participated in Compassionate Action for Animals' Animal Law Panel, which was one of a series of panels preceding the Peter Singer keynote at the University of Minnesota; Presented Animals in Crisis at the Minnesota State Bar Association Animal Law Section Annual Meeting and participated in Veterinary Malpractice panel; Presented CLE on Animal Law for Washington County Bar Association; Presented Animals in Disaster at the Minnesota Disaster Animal Relief Coalition Annual Meeting; Presented Animals in Crisis as part of the panel "Legal Developments for Animals and their Rescuers in Disasters" at the Lewis & Clark Animal Law Conference, which included Steven Wise, Russ Mead, and Drew Moore, 2006
• At the ABA Annual Meeting, Gislason presented "Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: Designing a Poison Pill for a Social Movement" as part of the TIPS Freedom of Speech symposium, which was an ABA presidential selection. She was featured as the cover lead story in the DVM News Magazine, the premier veterinary publication in the country, on the subject of veterinary malpractice. She made the first in-house presentation on Animal Law for Thomson Reuters, formerly known as West Publishing Company. In the presentation, she helped the lawyers and editors at the leading law book publisher in the world understand the complexities and growth of Animal Law. Her presentation was re-broadcast to legal editors around the country., 2007
• Presented Making it in the ABA: A Personal and Institutional Journey at the Future of Animal Law Conference at the Animal Legal Defense Fund Conference at Harvard University Law School on a panel moderated by Paul Waldau, which included Christopher Green, Camilla Fox, David Favre, Pamela Frasch, Adam Karp, Bernard Rollin, and many other speakers; Presented Animal Law: Fast Forward, an Animal Law CLE program for Thomson University (which provides internal education for leading this legal publisher f/k/a West Publishing and n/k/a Thomson Reuters; Presented Conquering Legal Quicksand at the American Veterinary Medical Law Association 14th Annual Conference; Presented Hot Topics in Animal Law to Hamline University Religion Class; Presented Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: Designing a Poison Pill for a Social Movement at the ABA Annual Meeting, a program sponsored by the Media, Privacy, and Defamation Law Committee; Moderator of Animals in Bioengineering: A Consideration of Law, Ethics, and Science, a program presented by the ABA-TIPS Committees on Animal Law, Intellectual Property Law, Media, Privacy, and Defamation Law, the ABA Section of Science and Technology Law, and Duke University School of Law, on a panel featuring Dr. Robert J. Wall, Dr. Betty Goldentyer, Dr. Paul VanRaden, and Rachel G. Lattimore, 2007
• Barbara J. Gislason is scheduled to make an address at the first International Animal Law Conference in Canada called: "The Animal Within the Sphere of Humans' Needs" in May 2009. Recently, she has provided two Continuing Legal Education programs in Minnesota, one for the Washington County Bar Association called "National Trends in Animal Law" and the other for the Animal Law Conference co-sponsored by William Mitchell College of Law and the Minnesota State Bar Association called "Table Top Exercise: A Nuclear Meltdown." Gislason also wrote Animal Law: A Significant Journey for an ABA book tentatively titled ABA-TIPS Guide to Litigating Animal Law Disputes; Presented Recent Developments at the ABA at the Annual Animal Law Section CLE co-sponsored by the MSBA and William Mitchell College of Law; Presented Protecting the Good Samaritan (Who Would Save Dorothy and her Little Dog, Too) at the ABA-TIPS National Trends, Emerging Issues and Cutting Edge Medical Disability Determinations Affecting All State Workers' Compensation Laws program which was co-sponsored by Workers' Injury Law & Advocacy Group, The College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers, National Conference of the Administrative Law Judiciary, AMA and ACOEM; Presented Pets in Family Law Cases at the MSBA Family Law Institute, 2008

Other Outstanding Achievements:

• Barbara J. Gislason is a pioneer in the development of both Animal Law and Entertainment and Sports Law as a practice area, both in Minnesota and nationally. In June 2003, she became the Founding Chair of the Animal Law Committee of the Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), and a year later, the Founding Chair of the MSBA Animal Law Section. This is also the second time in her legal career that she obtained section status for a new practice area, with her first success the Art and Entertainment Law Section in 1987. Minnesota was the sixth state in the country to achieve section status in Animal Law. Section status has the effect of both demonstrating acceptance and mainstreaming a practice area within the legal profession., 2003
• On October 9, 2004, Gislason brought Animal Law to the American Bar Association (ABA). By unanimous vote, the Council for the ABA's prestigious Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) made Animal Law a Committee and Gislason its first Chair. This is the only Animal Law Committee in the ABA and its scope is broad, ranging from equine, family, endangered species, and criminal law, to contracts, torts, insurance law, and more recently, biotechnology and emergency management., 2004
• Gislason co-taught the first Animal Law course offered in Minnesota at Hamline University School of Law. Gislason then founded the Minnesota Common Law Project in Animal Law and worked in cooperation with the Minnesota Justice Foundation. During orientation week in August 2004, students from Hamline University School of Law, the University of Minnesota, and William Mitchell College of Law, under Gislason's guidance, qualitatively interviewed 38 judges and referees in six counties. The information was used to gain insight into the court's current knowledge and understanding of this practice area, to gather courtroom stories and experiences, and to consider how courts are bridging the gaps between codified law and case law in a rapidly changing field., 2004
• Quoted in "Legal World Going to the Dogs--and Cats and Cows and Deer and Tigers," by Pam Louwagie, Star Tribune; Quoted in "Animal Law Comes Into Its Own," by Patricia Collier, Animal Planet News; Quoted in "Splitting Couples Snarl Over Furry Friends," by Catherine Donaldson-Evans, Fox News, 2004
• When Hurricane Katrina devasted the gulf coast in the fall of 2005, Gislason expanded her ABA efforts. She created and directed the ABA-TIPS Animal Disaster Relief Network, which included participants from more than 70 non-profits, law schools, and businesses. In this capacity, she wrote regularly published reports, including the first comprehensive overview in the country of state laws pertaining to animals and veterinarians in the homeland security, emergency management, and Good Samaritan context. She created and convened the ABA-TIPS Select Legal Panel on Emergency Management Regarding Animals, which fast tracked model language on hold periods, or the amount of time animals must be kept before title transfers., 2005
• Featured in "Pet Project: New ABA Committee on Animal Law Focuses on Post Katrina Rescue Efforts," ABA Journal; Profiled in the article "One Person Can Make a Difference," No Kill Nation: Maddie's Fund Newsletter; Quoted in "The Attraction of Animal Law," by Michelle Lore, Minnesota Lawyer; Quoted in "Posthumous Pet Care Catching On: Animal Lovers Find Alternatives to Trusts," by Amy Forliti, Associated Press, 2005
• Co-wrote "Vicious Dog Laws Unconstitutional in Ohio" with Joan Schaffner, ABA-TIPS Animal Law Committee Newsletter; Featured in Rescued: Saving Animals From Disaster by Allen and Linda Anderson; Profiled in "Animal Instincts," Minnesota Law & Politics; Quoted in "Speaking up for Animals: Lawyers Organize a Network for Better Management and Protection of Companion Animals in Disaster Situations," by Bliss Foster, Bark: The Modern Dog Culture Magazine; Quoted in "New Breed of Lawyer Gives Every Dog His Day in Court," by Warren St. John, Sunday Styles Section, New York Times; Interviewed for Equine Veterinary Management on the subject of Veterinary Malpractice; Achievements recognized on the nationally syndicated Dr. Phil Show, where Dr. Phil McGraw called Gislason "...the top animal advocate attorney in the country;" Gislason has been a guest on a variety of radio shows in the U.S. and abroad, including: Discovery Channel, American Public Radio, Australian Public Radio, Pat Miles Show, and Animal Wise Radio, 2006
• Quoted in "Are You Ready? Don't Wait for Disaster to Strike--Create an Evacuation Plan for Your Dog," by MaryAnn Mott, DogFancy; Featured in cover story, "A Malpractice Doctrine," DVM Newsmagazine, 2007
• Appeared in "Left Behind Without a Choice," a documentary by Kim Walsh on Katrina animals; Quoted in "Dangerous Dog Allowed Back in Taylors Falls," Standard Press Newspaper; Quoted in "Taylors Falls Council Allows Resident to House Dangerous Dog," Chisago County Press; Quoted in "Dubbed Dangerous Dog Returned to Owner," Inter-County Leader; Quoted in Minnesota Lawyer, 2008

Educational Background:

• JD, 1980, William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, MN, BA, 1974, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 1980