Remarkable Women: Gail Hagerty Thursday, March 19, 2020

KX News

“It’s hard to do. I think this is the right time, but about half my life, I served as a judge… a long time,” Judge Gail Hagerty said.

Gail Hagerty was elected as Burleigh County Judge in 1987, which at that time, was still uncommon to see a female judge. She went on to become a district court judge in 1995 and then a presiding judge in 2004. Hagerty said, however, the writing wasn’t always on the wall to work behind the bench.

“When I was a law student, I thought I was going to be a great journalist. And then, between my second and third year of law school, I worked at the Burleigh County State’s Attorney’s Office and it just became really clear to me I needed to be in a courtroom,” Hagerty said.

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