Jen Gartner is a graduate of the University of Delaware (B.A., 1998); the George Washington University Law School (J.D., 2001), where she served as Senior Managing Editor of the Public Contract Law Journal; and Norwich University (M.P.A., 2005).

Before joining the University in April 2013, Ms. Gartner was the Director of Grants & Contracts and an adjunct professor for the University of Colorado Denver's School of Public Affairs, where she taught courses in administrative law, negotiations, and federal contracting. She is formally trained as a government contracts attorney and has worked with military, aerospace, and nonprofit contractors for many years, first at the law firm of Morgan Lewis in Washington, DC, and later at the Space Science Institute, home to the NASA's Cassini Imaging Team, in Boulder, Colorado.

Ms. Gartner’s portfolio includes sponsored research, technology transfer, regulatory compliance, risk management, health law, university policies and practices, and other transactional matters.