Denise DeForest
- Director for Academic Support
- Associate Teaching Professor
Denise DeForest joined the University of Colorado after a career as a Colorado Administrative Law Judge, a Colorado Assistant Attorney General, an associate at a large Denver law firm, a member of police oversight teams in Denver and Omaha, NE, and an investigator for such entities as the Select Committee on Indian Affairs of the U.S. Senate and the Washington D.C. Public Defender Service.
Denise focuses her teaching on legal reasoning and other lawyerly skills. At CU, she teaches several courses for 3Ls who are beginning their preparations for the bar exam, along with skill workshops for 1Ls. Denise also still carries a torch for excellence in investigations, and she continues to teach investigative best practices throughout the US and Canada.
Denise obtained her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and has a B.A. in biology from the University of Virginia.
Education
JD, Georgetown University Law Center
BA, University of Virginia