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Denise A. Dragoo

Salt Lake City, UT

(801) 257-1998
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Education

Washington University School of Law, LL. M., Environmental and Land Use Law, 1977
University of Utah College of Law, J. D., 1976
University of Colorado, B. A., History, (With honors), 1973

Professional Experience

Partner

Ms. Dragoo’s practice emphases are: natural resources, coal law, water law, environmental law, mining law, public land law, mine safety and health law.

She has been an active member of: Utah State Bar, Utah Board of Bar Commissioners, American Bar Association, Women Lawyers of Utah, Inc., Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute, National Mining Association, and Utah Mining Association. Ms. Dragoo remains a Fellow in the American Bar Foundation.

Ms. Dragoo has served as Board Member and Chair of the Legal Aid Society. She has also served on the Salt Lake City Land Use Appeals Board and the Salt Lake City Futures Commission.

Energy, Environment & Natural Resources Experience

Denise A. Dragoo, Esq., is a partner with the law firm of Snell & Wilmer, Salt Lake City, Utah.  Ms. Dragoo received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado in 1973 with honors, is a 1976 graduate of the University of Utah, College of Law, and received a Masters of Law in Environmental Law and Land Use in 1977 from the Washington University School of Law, in St. Louis, Missouri.

Ms. Dragoo is the past chair and current Vice Chair of Programs for the American Bar Association’s Section on Environment, Energy & Resources (“SEER”), Public Lands and Resources Committee and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.  She is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and is the Utah State Bar’s Trustee to the Foundation.  Ms. Dragoo is listed in THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA (Natural Resources Law).

Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Dragoo served as Special Assistant Utah Attorney General to the Utah Board and Division of Oil, Gas & Mining.  Ms. Dragoo practices before the Board of Oil, Gas and Mining, the Utah State Engineer, the United States Department of the Interior, Board of Land Appeals and state and federal courts.  In February, 2006, Ms. Dragoo co-chaired the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation’s Special Institute on “NEPA and Federal Land Development” and she chaired the Environmental Program for the 47th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she presented a paper on “What New With NEPA? (Even After 30 Years),” 47 Rocky Mt. Min. L. Inst. 22 (2001).  In November, 2002, she presented a paper on “Compliance with Land Use Planning and NEPA Prior to Issuance of Federal Oil and Gas Leases,” RMMLF Special Institute on Regulation and Development of Coalbed Methane, Vol. 2002, No. 4, Paper 15A.  She presented a paper in July, 2003, entitled “Federal Land Use Planning Primer Under FLPMA and NFMA”, 49 Rocky Mt. Min. L. Inst. 22 (2003), at the 49th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute in San Diego, California.

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