Staff

Alisha Ankers

Alisha Ankers has been a practicing attorney since 1992, licensed in North Dakota and Minnesota. She keeps offices in Fargo and Wishek, North Dakota. Alisha trained as an arbitrator with AAML in 2020. Using her arbitration skills has been an asset in her work as a parenting coordinator and parenting time expeditor. In addition to providing collaborative and mediation services for family law cases, she represents clients in custody matters, child support, divorce, paternal rights, adoptions and guardianships. She also conducts custody investigations and provides guardian ad litem services. She has experience in complex family law matters. Ms. Ankers is a member of the Cass County Bar, Clay County Bar, State Bar Associations of North Dakota and Minnesota, as well as the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. She has been named a Great Plains Super Lawyer, and been a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers since 2011. In 2015 she became certified as a Family Law Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. She has presented in seminars for the North Dakota Supreme Court, National Business Institute, and State Bar Association of North Dakota. Ms. Ankers earned her B.A. degree from Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota (1989) and her J.D. degree from the University of North Dakota School of Law (1992). She lives near Argusville, North Dakota in their rural home, with her husband, horses, dog and various barn cats.

Heidi Ogaard

I graduated from Interstate Business College in May of 1995. I decided to move to a small town and work for Ackre and Baer Law Firm in Cando, North Dakota. I learned every aspect of the legal field from farming to how to protect that farm after the farmer’s demise. Met the man of my dreams where I swooped him up and brought him to Fargo, married him and have three beautiful children. Three decades later still loving the law and watching it grow and evolve in technology. I enjoy the new age law with less litigation and more collaboration where people can better themselves and everyone around them. In April 2024 attended a Seminar in Bismarck in Collaborative Divorce Training presented by The North Dakota Collaborative Divorce Group and The State Bar Association of North Dakota. Wonderful presentation and who knew you could get a divorce collaboratively instead of combatitively. Almost 30 years later and still enjoy meeting new people and assisting them in obtaining their goals.

Angie F. Pierson

Angie F. Pierson joined Ankers Law Office in May, 2023. With her extensive background in the legal profession, Angie approaches each case with compassion and understanding. Her previous employment dates back to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for 16 years and law firms ranging from trusts, personal injury, estates, collection law and her most compassionate instinct for family law. Ankers Law Office provides new technologies and procedures to ensure that each client is awarded the most efficient and effective services surrounding their legal matter.

In her spare time, Angie is an advocate for helping pets that need shelter and adoption. She lives in Fargo with her husband and their 3 rescue dogs. Angie and Chris also enjoy spending their free time in Detroit Lakes at the American Legion Campground.