
Leadership & Awards
Honors & Recognitions
National Women’s Bar Association Member Services Award (2021) for The 1891, the Colorado Women’s Bar Association Blog (Co-Creator, First Co-Editor, and Contributor).
Rising Star, Personal Injury, Colorado Super Lawyer (2021).
Rising Star, Personal Injury, Colorado Super Lawyer (2020).
Rising Star, Personal Injury, Colorado Super Lawyer (2019).
Rising Star, Personal Injury, Colorado Super Lawyer (2018).
Top 25 Female Faculty, LawLine (2018).
Top 10 Productivity Blog Posts, Rocket Matter (2017).
Lawyer of the Year, Law Week Colorado (2017).
Rising Star, Business Litigation, Texas Super Lawyers (2017).
Rising Star, Business Litigation, Texas Super Lawyers (2015).
Italian Influence on the Law, ICCC (2015).
Rising Star, Business Litigation, Texas Super Lawyers (2014).
Order of the Coif (2008).
Order of the Barons (2008).
Order of the Barristers (2008).
Leadership
American Bar Association
Vice President, Commercial & Business Litigation Committee, American Bar Association, Litigation Section, 2022-Present.
ABA Observer to the UN Economic and Social Council, August 2022-Present.
Co-Chair, Expert Witness Committee, Commercial & Business Litigation Committee, American Bar Association, 2020-Present.
Editor, Practice Points, Commercial & Business Litigation Committee, American Bar Association, 2020-Present.
House of Delegates, ABA, January 2018-2019.
Chair, Space Law Committee, ABA Science & Technology Section, Aug. 2014-2016.
Editor-in-Chief (Aug. 2012-Aug. 2014), Co-Editor (Mar. 2009-Aug. 2012), Commercial and Business Litigation Newsletter, Litigation Section.
Chief Editor (Aug. 2010-Aug. 2011), Assistant Editor (Aug. 2009-Aug. 2010), The Affiliate, Young Lawyers Division.
Political Experience
Democratic Nominee for House District 56, November 2020 Election
Gubernatorial Appointments
Board Member, State Board of Community College and Occupational Educational, Colorado (January 2018-February 2022).
Audit Committee Member, State Board of Community College and Occupational Educational (September 2020-December 2021).
State Bar Associations
Colorado Women’s Bar Association, Member, 2017-2022.
Former Co-Chair of the Publications Committee, CWBA.
Former Public Policy Committee (Member); Blog Sub-Committee (Member), CWBA.
Colorado Bar Association, Member, 2016-2019.
Director, Texas Young Lawyers Association, Board of Directors, 2008-2010
International Institute of Space Law (IISL), Nominated and Elected Member, October 2010-2017
Regional Organizer, Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition, March 2015-2017.
Observer to UN Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Vienna, Austria, Mar. 2014, Mar. 2015.