Staff
Vice President, The Center for American and International Law
Director, Institute for Energy Law
Director, Institute for Law and Technology
vadams@cailaw.org
+1.972.244.3421
Vickie Adams joined CAIL in April 2014 after moving to Texas from Oklahoma, and made the move to the Institute for Energy Law in May of 2015. Before joining CAIL full time, Vickie worked as Legal Counsel for an Oklahoma banking institution. She received her undergraduate degree summa cum laude in Photojournalism with a minor in Humanities from the University of Central Oklahoma and her law degree with honors from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she is a member of the Order of the Coif. While completing her law degree, she served as an Articles Editor for the American Indian Law Review and earned a Certificate of Achievement from the Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy. She is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
Vickie is responsible for IEL membership, social media, and academic outreach. She also directly oversees the development of various IEL conferences and programs and works closely with conference co-chairs and faculty. Vickie has a certificate in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace from USF Corporate Training and Professional Education, and she works closely with IEL’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.
Ryan Frome joined CAIL in February of 2020. Before joining CAIL, Ryan was a manager at Starbucks. She received her undergraduate degree in Anthropology, with an emphasis in Biological Anthropology, from the University of Oklahoma. Ryan manages webinars and virtual conferences for IEL, in addition to working on other aspects of IEL.
Emma Espey
Staff Assistant, Institute for Energy Law
eespey@cailaw.org
+1.972.244.3408
Sponsorship Director, The Center for American and International Law
lhogarth@cailaw.org
+1.972.244.3424
Lilly Hogarth serves as sponsorship director at The Center for American and International Law, where she is responsible for sponsorships across CAIL's institutes, entities and programs. She joined CAIL in 2011 as IEL's project manager, growing the institute's annual conference sponsorship revenue more than 200% before being named sponsorship director in 2021.
Hogarth holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Dallas and a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pavia in Italy, and is a certified Project Management Professional. She is fluent in Italian, English, French and Spanish, with a working knowledge of German and Swedish.