Equine and Equestrian Consulting
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Equine and Equestrian Consulting
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Jan Dawson, J.D.
Safety and liability workshops and seminars; lectures, demonstrations and clinics; facility safety audits; program design; and expert witness services
Jan Dawson has been involved with horses for over 50 years, on a cattle ranch in the flint hills of Kansas, in the hunt country of Virginia, and in Texas and Mexico. She has experience teaching and training in seven western and English disciplines. She and her students have won several championships, as have horses she has trained.
Ms. Dawson is a certified instructor and teaching clinician who trains and certifies riding instructors throughout the United States. She is founder and president of the non-profit, tax exempt American Association for Horsemanship Safety, Inc. The Association boasts the most extensive website in America featuring horsemanship liability laws and safety guidance: www.law.utexas.edu/dawson/.
Ms. Dawson is highly experienced in risk analysis of equestrian facilities and programs. She teaches several riding instructor certification clinics and equine liability workshops each year and consults frequently with horsemen and attorneys throughout the United States.
Ms. Dawson developed the Secure Seat(sm) method of teaching riding, the first step-by-step, systematic method specifically designed for safely teaching beginners to ride and for teaching others to become more secure on their horses.
She is the Author of Teaching Safe Horsemanship (Storey Communications, 1997), a book that is becoming a safety standard in the horse industry. Ms. Dawson is a frequent lecturer to groups including the United States Pony Club, the American Camping Association, the American Horse Shows Association (now USA Equestrian), the American Youth Horse Council, and several universities, including Washington State University, the University of Vermont, and Oklahoma State University.
She is principal investigator under a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for a project to reduce injuries from horse accidents among children on the Navajo Nation. As part of that project, she authored a children’s book titled, J.P. Paddock Says … “Be Safe with Horses.”
Ms. Dawson, with her husband, University of Texas Law Professor Robert O. Dawson, is author of Cases and Materials on the Horse and the Law (Tentative Draft 2001), a course book for a course in Equine Law they jointly teach at the University of Texas School of Law. This course is believed to be the only course on equine law currently being taught at any American law school.
Ms Dawson, along with her husband, owns and manages Golondrina Stables and Training Center in Fentress, Texas where she keeps her ten horses, including the two horses she currently shows.
She is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law and is licensed to practice law in the State of Texas, but chooses not to practice. She offers a full range of expert and consulting services to attorneys in lawsuits involving horses.
(512) 488-2220 Jzdawson@aol.com P.O. Box 39, Fentress, Texas 78622
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Curriculum Vitae
CONTACT INFORMATION
Jan Dawson
Golondrina Stables
P.O. Box 39
Fentress, Texas 78622
(512) 488-2220 - voice
(512) 488-2319 – fax
(512) 422-4068 - cell
Jzdawson@aol.com
EDUCATION
College - B.A. Anthropology with Special Honors, University of Texas at Austin, 1976
Post-graduate - Doctor of Jurisprudence, University of Texas at Austin School of Law, 1983
Licensed to practice law in State of Texas
OCCUPATION
Owner/Trainer/Instructor, Golondrina Stables and Training Center
President (1995 - present) American Association for Horsemanship Safety, Inc.
Executive Vice President (1993-1995) Horsemanship Safety Association, Inc.
Certified Instructor and Teaching Clinician, American Association for Horsemanship Safety, Inc.
Golondrina Stables is an equestrian center with box stalls in two barns, lighted outdoor and covered arenas, dressage ring, turn out paddocks and wooded trails in Fentress, Texas (between Austin and San Antonio)
American Association for Horsemanship Safety, Inc. is a tax-exempt non-profit corporation devoted to horsemanship safety, horsemanship liability laws, and risk reduction.
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
Has successfully shown hunters, western pleasure horses, western riders, and reiners; currently shows dressage horses.
Has taught beginning through advanced riding.
Has trained students to show in many disciplines.
Has trained gold, silver and bronze teams in the USDF Jr. Team Championships.
Former U.S. Pony Club District Commissioner and Instructor.
Has gentled and trained horses in various disciplines.
Has taught horsemanship safety clinics in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Washington.
Has trained and certified over 200 instructors and clinicians.
Has given seminars on safe horsemanship and workshops on equine liability sponsored by Washington State University, Oklahoma State University, Utah State University, and the University of Vermont.
Has taught with her husband, Professor Robert O. Dawson, a course in Equine Law at the University of Texas School of Law in the Spring Semester 2002.
Has trained Native American instructors and clinicians and given safety seminars on the Navajo Nation in Arizona.
Under contract with Indian Health Service of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to design safety program for Native American horsemen on the Navajo Nation. As part of that contract, wrote a children’s book on horse safety titled J.P. Paddock Says … “Be Safe with Horses.”
Has consulted, given depositions, and testified in horse accident cases involving serious injuries in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Wyoming, and British Columbia, Canada.
Accident settings included summer camps, riding stables, guest ranches, residential prep schools, county fair grounds and private ranches and suburban properties.
Has spoken to the Forum of the American Horse Shows Association Standards Committee at the National Convention in 2000 and in 2001 in Colorado Springs. The American Horse Shows Association, now U.S.A.Equestrian, is the body that represents the U.S. internationally.
Was keynote speaker at the Vermont Equine Summit Conference sponsored by the University of Vermont and the Vermont Department of Agriculture at the Vermont Law School March 2001.
Has presented two workshops at EqWest in 2000, workshops at various national meetings of the American Camping Association, workshops to the United States Pony Club, and workshops to the national conventions of the American Youth Horse Council in 2001 and 2002.
PUBLICATIONS
Teaching Safe Horsemanship (Storey Communications 1997)
Instructor's Handbook of Horsemanship Safety (1994).
"Harmony," a monthly column on balanced seat riding in Texas Horse Rider (1992-1994).
"Foreword" in Haas, Safe Horse, Safe Rider (Storey Communications 1994).
President’s Column and various horsemanship and safety articles in Caution:Horses, the quarterly publication of the American Association for Horsemanship Safety (1995 - present).
"Secure Seat(sm) A Safe and Systematic Approach to Teaching Riding", by Elizabeth Greene and Jan Dawson – paper presented at National Symposium on Equine Nutrition and Physiology (1999).
“Secure Seat(sm): A Safe and Systematic Approach to Teaching Riding,” by Elizabeth Greene and Jan Dawson, Journal of Extension (Vol. 40, No. 4, August 2002) (an online, refereed journal at www.joe.org).
Co-authored the Self-Guided Horse Facility Analysis with Dr. Elizabeth Greene under a grant from the Vermont Department of Agriculture, 2002.
“J.P. Paddock Says… Be Safe with Horses” A United States Government Publication produced for use with a program on the Navajo Reservation, 2002.
Co-authored Cases and Materials on the HORSE and the LAW (Tentative Draft 2001) with her husband, Professor Robert O. Dawson. They are currently teaching a course in Equine Law from that coursebook at the University of Texas School of Law.
Ms. Dawson’s horsemanship and safety articles are collected and can be read on the Equine Law and Horsemanship Safety web site, maintained by the Tarlton Law Library of the University of Texas School of Law and have been reproduced in many national magazines and periodicals.
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