Ariel Piers-Gamble, Child Protection Division Chief

Ariel majored in Political Science at Simmons College in Boston where she received the Joan M. Warburg Scholarship for International Relations and Political Science and Carroll French Miles Award for Excellence in Political Science. While at Simmons, she served as a press intern for Senator Edward M. Kennedy. She graduated cum laude and went on to Maine Law where she enjoyed internships with the Judicial Branch and the York County District Attorney’s Office.

 

After law school, Ariel joined a small litigation firm in Brunswick where she handled insurance subrogation cases, as well as represented individuals in family matters, protection from abuse cases and criminal matters. She also became a rostered guardian ad litem and successfully argued her first case before the Law Court, State v. Prescott, 2012 ME 96, 48 A.3d 218. Ariel then joined a firm in Portland, where she worked on high-stakes civil litigation.

 

In 2013, Ariel joined the Office of the Attorney General’s Child Protection Division and divided her time between trial work and appeals. During her career with the Attorney General’s Office, Ariel has briefed and argued cases before the Law Court, and tried hundreds of complex, fast-paced, expert-heavy bench trials and hearings on behalf of Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Child and Family Services. In addition to advising the Office of Child and Family Services, she has conducted a number of trainings and served on a variety of panels, workgroups and multidisciplinary teams.