Dr. Helen Gaebler

Biography

Helen Anne Gaebler is a Senior Research Attorney and Lecturer at the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law at the University of Texas at Austin. She focuses on reforming the criminal legal system, concentrating particularly on parole reentry. Gaebler directs the law school’s Pro Bono Parole Project, which recruits law students to represent women eligible for parole who are incarcerated in Central Texas. Additionally, she is the director of community engagement for the university's interdisciplinary Initiative on Law, Societies, and Justice. Active in the Texas reentry community, Gaebler is a member of several groups, including the Austin/Travis County Reentry Roundtable and the Texas Supreme Court Children's Commission Parent Resource Work Group, where she provides research support to organizations focused on reentry issues in Texas. Before joining the Justice Center, she served as the Assistant Director at the Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth, and Families at the University of Arizona, where she taught family law. Gaebler has also worked as an Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Arizona Attorney General and has experience as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice and as a litigator with WilmerHale in Washington, D.C. She began her legal career clerking for the Honorable Nathan Heffernan, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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