22 Facts About Pamela Gilbert

Pamela Gilbert leads the Committee to Support Antitrust laws, an organization supportive of antitrust legislation.

Pamela Gilbert was a Root-Tilden scholar at NYU Law School.

Pamela Gilbert led the effort for congressional enactment of legislation to protect children from toxic art supplies.

In 2009, after the election of President Barack Obama, Pamela Gilbert headed the Presidential Transition Team for the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Pamela Gilbert represented the National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys to oppose efforts in Congress to change the rules for bringing class action lawsuits.

Pamela Gilbert's firm held press conferences in Washington, DC and elsewhere, meeting with administration officials such as then-SEC Chairman Christopher Cox.

In 2008, Pamela Gilbert worked with the Center for Justice and Democracy to bring before Congress families with children who developed lead poisoning from hazardous toys, to urge the passage of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement act of 2008.

Also that year, Pamela Gilbert testified before the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of consumers who were assessed fees for switching cell phone companies before their contracts expired.

Pamela Gilbert urged the FCC not to preempt state laws and state-based lawsuits intended to protect consumers from these allegedly unfair practices by cell phone companies.

In 2009, Pamela Gilbert worked with people injured by defects in Chrysler and General Motors vehicles to urge the Obama administration and the automobile companies to modify their bankruptcy agreements to ensure that personal injury victims would have an opportunity to receive compensation.

On behalf of the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws, Pamela Gilbert worked with Congress and the Obama Administration to amend the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act to ensure that members of criminal antitrust conspiracies adequately cooperate with civil lawsuits in return for reduced damages.

On June 10,2010, Pamela Gilbert was appointed to the board of directors of the AAI.

On behalf of Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety, Pamela Gilbert led the successful lobbying effort to pass a federal law prohibiting rental car companies from renting or selling recalled cars until they are repaired.

Pamela Gilbert worked with Mrs Cally Houck, whose two daughters were killed in a rental car that caught on fire and crashed as a result of an unrepaired defect that had been subject to a safety recall.

Pamela Gilbert represents SD3, LLC, which owns SawStop, a table saw manufacturer whose table saws are equipped with technology that stops a spinning saw blade in milliseconds when it comes in contact with human flesh.

Pamela Gilbert has worked with SawStop and a coalition of consumer protection groups in an effort to enact a mandatory safety standard so that all table saws contain injury mitigation technology to prevent amputations and other serious laceration injuries.

In 2008, Pamela Gilbert wrote a chapter entitled "Consumer Product Safety Commission: Safety First" for Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President, published by the Center for American Progress and the New Democracy Project.

In 2010, Pamela Gilbert authored a chapter in Materials on Tort Reform by Professor Andrew Popper of the Washington College of Law at American University.

In 2012, Gilbert co-authored with Victoria Romanenko a chapter in Private Enforcement of the Antitrust Laws in the United States.

In 2001, Pamela Gilbert stepped down as executive director of the Consumer Product Safety Commission after President Bush sparked a constitutional controversy by seeking to replace the leadership of the Commission, citing his powers under Article Two of the United States Constitution.

Later, in 2008, Pamela Gilbert was mentioned as a possible appointee by President Barack Obama to be Chairman of the Commission.

Pamela Gilbert is married to Charles Lewis, Professor of Journalism at American University, founder of the Center for Public Integrity, and a former producer for 60 Minutes.