Hadassah (Dessa) Reimer

Hadassah (Dessa) Reimer is Of Counsel at Holland & Hart in Jackson, Wyoming, where she guides clients through federal, state, tribal, and local environmental and cultural permitting requirements. Her practice includes environmental litigation, federal lands permitting, wildlife and protected species, environmental health and safety, climate issues, and environmental transactions. She advises energy, mining, oil and gas, renewable, transmission, pipeline, mineral materials, and water projects and defends project permits in administrative proceedings and federal or state court.

Reimer earned a J.D. from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 2004, graduating summa cum laude and serving as Managing Editor of the Wyoming Law Review. She received a B.A. from the University of Wyoming in 2001, also summa cum laude, with a Psychology major and minors in Sociology and Spanish through the Honors Program. After law school, she completed a judicial clerkship with Judge William F. Downes of the US District Court for the District of Wyoming.

Reimer advises clients through NEPA review, ESA consultation, federal land use planning, Mineral Leasing Act and FLPMA authorizations, rights-of-way, and environmental rulemaking. Her experience includes negotiating mineral and land leases with tribal governments, addressing Bureau of Indian Affairs approval processes, and defending major energy and mining projects before the Interior Board of Land Appeals and federal courts. She also represents tribes on selected matters and works on local land use approvals, giving her practice a broad public-lands and project-development focus.

Hadassah (Dessa) Reimer has held leadership roles with the Federal Bar Association and The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law and has served on the University of Wyoming College of Arts & Sciences Board of Visitors. She has been recognized as a Mountain States Super Lawyers Rising Star in Environmental law. Her work combines permitting, administrative law, federal lands, tribal issues, and litigation, helping clients move complex projects through regulatory review while preparing to defend approvals when environmental or procedural challenges arise.

Law Office Affiliations

• Of Counsel, Holland & Hart LLP
• Member, Wyoming State Bar
• President, Federal Bar Association, Wyoming Chapter (2013-2022)
• Public Lands Committee, Co-Chair, American Bar Association (2016-2018)
• Annual Institute, Public Lands Chair, The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (2013)
• Board of Visitors, University of Wyoming, College of Arts & Sciences (2025-Present)
• Board President, Jackson Hole Stingrays Swim Team (2017-2024)

Licensed State

• Wyoming

Education

• University of Wyoming College of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Wyoming
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Psychology, minor in Sociology and Spanish

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