Advisory Board Biographies
Terrance Carroll
Speaker, Colorado House of Representatives
Speaker Carroll served on the House of Representatives from 2003-2010, and bears the distinction of being the first African-American Speaker of the House in Colorado. He is an attorney with Greenberg Traurig, LLP in Denver, where he practices in civil litigation, election, administrative, and education law.
Alan Chen
Associate Dean and Professor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Alan Chen is an expert in constitutional law and civil rights litigation. Before joining the Denver Law faculty, he worked in the Chicago office of the American Civil Liberties Union, litigating such issues as police misconduct, free speech, and privacy. His scholarship and teaching focuses on these issues in addition to federal jurisdiction, remedies for civil rights violations, and social change lawyering.
Richard Collins
Professor, University of Colorado Law School
Richard Collins served as the director of the White Center from 2002-2010. He teaches and writes in constitutional law, local government law and law and religion.
Anne Costain
Professor, University of Colorado
Anne Costain is a professor in the University of Colorado’s Political Science department and the chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies program. Her research and publications focus on social movements and the women’s movement in particular.
Jean Dubofsky
Attorney
Justice Jean Dubofsky began her legal career as an attorney for Colorado Rural Legal Services. She later worked for the Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Denver, then as Deputy Attorney General for Colorado. In 1979 she was the first woman Justice appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court. In recent years, she has maintained an active appellate practice focused on the protection of civil liberties.
Patricia Hayes
Charter School Institute
The former chair of the University of Colorado Board of Regents, Patricia Hayes has held numerous community leadership positions. She has served on several levels of the Board of Education, the Interstate Migrant Education Council, Colorado Forum of Education Leaders, and numerous other boards, committees and panels dedicated to improving the quality of education. She currently is a member of the Colorado Charter School Institute Board of Directors.
Rebecca Love Kourlis
University of Denver
Justice Rebecca Love Kourlis is currently the Executive Director of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver. Kourlis is a former Justice on the Colorado Supreme Court and has nearly 20 years of judicial experience as a trial judge, Water Judge, Chief District Judge, and on the Supreme Court.
David Mapel
Associate Professor, University of Colorado
David Mapel is the Director of CU’s LeRoy Keller Center for the Study of the First Amendment, which fosters teaching and outreach on First Amendment issues. He is a professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Political Science department, where he focuses on political theory and international relations. He has authored numerous publications on international ethics and theories of social justice.
D. Scott Martinez
Associate, Holland & Hart LLP
Scott Martinez has been active in election law and politics throughout his career, publishing articles on the subject, serving on committees, drawing congressional district boundaries, and creating the Hispanic Vote Project. His litigation practice spans from election and campaign finance law to commercial litigation, privacy and data security. He is the Vice Chair of Colorado’s Bell Policy Center.
Scott Moss
Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law School
Professor Scott Moss joined the CU faculty in 2003, after 3 years on the faculty at Marquette Law School and six years litigating employment cases for plaintiffs. His research focuses on constitutional and employment law.
Helen Norton
Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law School
Before joining the Colorado Law faculty, Helen Norton served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2008 she served as leader of President Obama’s transition team charged with reviewing the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission. She also has testified before both houses of Congress on civil rights issues. Professor Norton teaches courses in employment discrimination and constitutional law.
Edward Ramey
Shareholder, Isaacson Rosenbaum PC
Ed Ramey’s litigation practice ranges from commercial and business matters to public interest and constitutional issues. He has been involved in civil rights cases challenging religious discrimination and statutory limitations on abortion rights, and in many First Amendment cases involving free speech, prisoners’ rights, and political protest. He is a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Colorado and University of Denver and serves on a variety of nonprofit organizations in the Denver area.
Richard Westfall
Partner, Hale Westfall LLP
Richard Westfall practices in appellate and public policy litigation. He previously served as Solicitor General for the state of Colorado. Colorado lawyers have recognized him with various awards for his efforts in high-profile constitutional and public policy cases. Prior to joining private practice, Mr. Westfall served as a law clerk to Justice Byron White on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Barney White
Partner, Petros & White LLC
Charles “Barney” White is a graduate of Stanford Law School and a former lecturer at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He is currently a partner at the Denver law firm Petros & White LLC, where he practices water law and public land law.
