Angela Bullock Gabel has a wide range of legal experience. She has spent her career representing governmental and quasi-governmental entities in election law, constitutional law, education law, and administrative law. She is a hearing officer for law enforcement agencies and a municipal judge for her local jurisdiction. Ms. Gabel has also served clients in areas of consumer protection, products liability and personal injuries. Recent wrongful death clients included victims of the single largest maritime disaster in the history of Missouri.
Election law has been a focus for Ms. Gabel for most of her career. Ms. Gabel has represented clients in claims involving Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Equal Protection, jurisdictional boundary disputes, election recounts, candidate qualifications, and polling and voting disputes.
Ms. Gabel represented the City of Eastpointe, Michigan in a landmark case under the Voting Rights Act. In that case, the City of Eastpointe consented to the adoption of ranked choice voting and became the first jurisdiction to adopt RCV in the voting rights context. Ms. Gabel supervised all aspects of the city’s implementation from statutory compliance to federal and state testing and approval.
Ms. Gabel is President of the Board of Directors for the Ritenour Co-Care Food Pantry and is a former board member for the St. Louis County Bar Association and the St. Louis Women Lawyers’ Association. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband and three children.