Gail is originally from Kansas City, Missouri. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Rice University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Gail is a former partner of the Palo Alto-based law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Gail is currently a member of the Humanities Advisory Board at Rice University. She has also served as co-chair of the Parent Education Committee at The Open Window School and co-chair of the World Languages Committee at Medina Elementary School. Gail and her husband, Brad, have two children. Their older son attends The Overlake School and their younger son, Bennett, has been a student at FASPS since 2006.