Joan G. Hallock - Partner

HDBOB partner Joan G. Hallock joined the firm in 2003, bringing with her the unique perspective, skills, and insight she developed in nearly 10 years as a Workers’ Compensation Judge for the State of Minnesota, Office of Administrative Hearings. Joan focuses her practice in workers’ compensation and workers’ compensation mediation and arbitration. She is a qualified neutral under Rule 114 of the Minnesota Rules of General Practice and has been a mediator/arbitrator for the Union Construction Workers’ Compensation Program since 2003.

Joan received a B.S. from Boston University, an M.S. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law. She is admitted to practice in Minnesota. She served as law clerk to two federal magistrate judges in the United States District Court-District of Minnesota, during which time she was admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court-District of Minnesota and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a member of the Ramsey County and Minnesota State Bar Associations.

Long before it was “acceptable,” Joan played goalie on high school, college, and recreational hockey teams. She served as captain of her alma mater’s women’s ice hockey team for two seasons, and was voted Most Valuable Player in her senior year. In 1985, she became one of the first women in Minnesota to be certified as a U.S.A. Hockey referee. Since 2000, she has worked as a volunteer coach for the Edgcumbe Youth Hockey Association in St. Paul. Her two favorite hockey players are her twin sons, whom she coaches in life as well as in the finer points of hockey.

Along with hockey, Joan also enjoys golf, gardening, and music. She started out as a music/voice major at Indiana University where she sang with a choral group and appeared in the opera chorus of a university production of “Carmen.” She has also studied voice at the New England School of Contemporary Music and MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis.

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