Gayle Pettinga
Owner & Attorney | Gerling Law Injury Attorneys
Gayle Pettinga is a personal injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death trial lawyer and owner & attorney of Gerling Law Injury Attorneys in Evansville, Indiana. Admitted in Indiana; J.D., Indiana University Maurer School of Law (1987).
Meet Gayle
Gayle Gerling Pettinga is the owner of Gerling Law Injury Attorneys in Evansville, Indiana, a personal injury firm her father, Gary Gerling, founded in 1963. She took over leadership of the practice from him and represents people in medical malpractice, wrongful death, brain injury, paralysis and product liability cases, along with Social Security and VA disability claims. The firm also has an office in Owensboro, Kentucky.
An Evansville native, Pettinga earned her bachelor’s degree cum laude from Smith College in 1984 and her law degree magna cum laude from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 1987, where she was a senior note editor of the Indiana Law Journal. Before joining the family firm she practiced with a large Indianapolis law firm and with a major pharmaceutical company. She has served on the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association board since 2002 and is a past board member of the Indianapolis Bar Association.
In 2006 she launched the firm’s Great Helmet Give-Away, which has provided free bicycle helmets to more than 7,000 local children. She has also served on the boards of Holly’s House and Gilda’s Club of Evansville, and the YWCA Evansville honored her with its Tribute to Achievement Award in 2018.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- J.D., magna cum laude, Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, 1987
- A.B., cum laude, Smith College, 1984
- Admitted to practice in Indiana, 1987
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Peer Review Rated
Practice Areas
- Indiana Trial Lawyers Association (Board Member, 2002-Present)
- American Association for Justice
- National Trial Lawyers Association
- Indianapolis Bar Association (Past Board Member; Past Chair, Women and the Law Division)
- Evansville Bar Association (Past Chair, Law Day Committee)
- Indiana University Maurer School of Law Alumni Advisory Board (Past Board Member)
- Brain Injury Association of Indiana
- Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers, 2007-Present
- National Trial Lawyers Top Ten Trucking Lawyers, 2020
- American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys 10 Best Attorneys in Indiana for Client Service
- Marquis Who's Who in American Law
- Junior League of Evansville Top Twenty Women in Business, 2019
- YWCA Evansville Tribute to Achievement Award, 2018
- Evansville Day School Founders Achievement Award, 2018
- YWCA Evansville 100 Years, 100 Women Honoree, 2011
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