Pamela Epp Olsen

Pamela Olsen is General Counsel and Administrator for the Nebraska Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association, having served in these capacities since 2003. She has served as the Executive Director of the Minnesota Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association since 2019 and of the New Mexico Life Insurance Guaranty Association since 2024. Olsen is also the managing partner of Pamela Epp Olsen Law, PC, LLO, where her practice focuses on insurance, estate and business transition planning, and elder law–related and long-term care benefits matters.

Olsen’s work with NOLHGA includes current service as Chair of the Senior Health Insurance Company of Pennsylvania Task Force; Chair of the CoOportunity Health Task Force; Treasurer of the GABC Board; and membership on the PHL Variable Insurance Company Task Force, the AF&L/SAIC Task Force, the NOLHGA Legal Committee, and various other task forces and committees. Olsen is a past Chair of the Members’ Participation Council (MPC) (2015–2018), a past Chair of the Medical Savings Insurance Company Task Force, and a past member of the MPC Executive Committee. She currently serves as a member of the NOLHGA Board of Directors.

Olsen received her Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, graduating with highest distinction in 1993; earned her Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude from Creighton University School of Law in 1996; and served as judicial clerk for both the Chief Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court (1996–1997) and the Honorable George Fagg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1998–2000). She practiced as an associate and then partner with the law firm of Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather, LLP, for 22 years before opening her own firm in 2021.