EXPERIENCE

Ms. Meirink is a member of the Natural Resources Department of Holland & Hart LLP. Her work focuses primarily on compliance with federal and state environmental regulation. Ms. Meirink has experience with NEPA, the Endangered Species Act, and cultural resource protection laws, such as the National Historic Preservation Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

Ms. Meirink also has experience with Indian law and with natural resources development on tribal lands. She is actively involved in Holland & Hart's Indian Law Practice Group. Ms. Meirink has assisted tribal and non-tribal clients in a variety of matters, including jurisdictional issues, tribal employment, environmental remediation, Indian gaming, and negotiations of mineral leases and rights-of-way on tribal lands. She is also actively involved in Holland & Hart's Climate Change Practice Group, particularly on climate-related matters affecting Indian land.

Prior to joining Holland & Hart and while in law school, Ms. Meirink externed as a law clerk for the Honorable Gerry L. Alexander, Chief Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 Communications Chair, Colorado Hispanic Bar Association

 Member, American Bar Association

 Member, Colorado Bar Association

 Member, Denver Bar Association

 Member, National Hispanic Bar Association

 Member, Native American Bar Association

 Member, Colorado Indian Bar Association

 Member, Colorado Women's Bar Association

 Board Member, Saint Mary's Academy Alumnae Association

 Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, Leadership Arts Program

PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

"Programmatic Agreements for Federal Historic Preservation Review and Tribal Consultation--Can they Help Avoid Regulatory Gridlock in the Mineral and Energy Boom?" 54th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, Snowmass, Colorado, July 17-19, 2008.

"Programmatic Agreements and Energy: The Promise and Reality of Flexible Regulation," presentation for CLE International Conference on Historic Preservation, Denver, Colorado, February 2008.

"Climate Change on Tribal Lands," panel discussion conducted at the 2007 Indian Land Working Group Symposium, Green Bay, October 2007.

Author, "An Overview of Current Federal Cultural Resource Protection Statutes," at the Legal Trends & Issues Facing the Natural Gas Pipeline Industry CLE, (Colorado Springs, October 2006).

EDUCATION

Seattle University School of Law (J.D., 2005)
- magna cum laude
- Dean's List
- Dean's Diversity Scholarship Recipient

University of Colorado (B.A., 2001)
- Dean's List
- English and History degrees
- Featured in "The National Dean's List 2001"
- Co-President of Phi Alpha Theta, Beta-Epsilon Chapter (History Honors Society)

OTHER LANGUAGES

Spanish