Robin Sessions Cooley

Director

In March 2019, Governor Mark Gordon appointed Robin Sessions Cooley as Director of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services. Previous to her current position, Ms. Cooley received gubernatorial appointments to the Public Service Commission (2017-2019) as a public utility regulator helping to ensure the public utilities operating in Wyoming provide safe and reliable service to customers at just and reasonable rates, and to the State Board of Equalization (2015-2017) to hear and decide mineral and property tax disputes. Before these appointments, Ms. Cooley enjoyed an 18-year career with the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office, beginning in the Criminal Division in 1997, writing criminal appellate briefs and litigating state and federal post-conviction cases. She later became the Deputy Attorney General of the newly-formed Human Services Division, representing numerous state agencies, including the Departments of Workforce Services, Health, Family Services, Education, Transportation, the Community College Commission, and various State Boards. Ms. Cooley also served as Special Counsel to Governor Mead (2013–2014) and was in private practice in Cheyenne for five years before entering government service. As an adjunct professor at Laramie County Community College, Ms. Cooley taught Business Law I and II and Legal Research and Writing. She also taught Public Health Law as an adjunct professor at the University of Wyoming College of Law. Ms. Cooley is pursuing her LL.M. in Healthcare Law and Compliance to expand her interest in healthcare, as well.

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