Santa Fe Attorney
Dana S. Hardy

Dana Hardy is a Partner in the Santa Fe office of Hinkle Shanor LLP. Ms. Hardy graduated from Colorado State University in 1996, magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts. She obtained her Juris Doctorate, magna cum laude, from the University of New Mexico in 2000. Ms. Hardy has received an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Areas of Practice

• Utilities
• Natural Resources
• Administrative Law
• Civil Litigation
• Civil Appeals
• Insurance Defense

Education

• University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • J.D. magna cum laude – 2000
• Colorado State University
  •  B.A. magna cum laude – 1996

Published Works

• Casenote: Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School District – The Supreme Court Determines the Standard of Liability Under Title IX, New Mexico Law Review, 1999

Honors and Awards

• Editor in Chief, New Mexico Law Review
• Raymond Showers Prize for Achievement in Legal Writing
• West Award for Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship
• Order of the Coif
• Phi Beta Kappa

Professional Associations and Memberships

• First Judicial District Bar Association, President
• University of New Mexico Women’s Law Caucus, President
• Oliver Seth American Inn of Court
• New Mexico Bar Association
• First Judicial District Bar Association, Board of Directors, 2004 – 2007
• New Mexico Women’s Bar Association, Board of Directors, 2002 – 2003
• New Mexico’s State Bar Membership Services Committee, 2007 – 2011