1801 California Street, Suite 4900
Denver, CO 80202
Phone: 303.894.6366
Fax: 303.894.9239

Connie Talmage

Connie Talmage has been the Executive Director of the Colorado Lawyers Committee since 2000. She received her law degree from the University of Denver College of Law in 1978 and practiced for 10 years with the law firms of Holland & Hart and Ireland, Stapleton, Pryor and Pascoe. For four years she was the Director of the Office of Dispute Resolution, the statewide office of the Colorado Judicial Department responsible for mediation and other types of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in the courts.

Connie is a former president and Board member of the Colorado Women's Bar Association Foundation and is currently on the CWBA Board. For seven years, she served on the Colorado Access to Justice Commission, two years as the Chair during which she directed the statewide hearings on Colorado's civil justice crisis. Since 2005 she has been the CBA Judicial Liaison Section's representative to the CBA Board of Governors, having chaired the Section in 2004 and 2005. She has been on the Board of the Colorado Judicial Institute since 1992 and has been in charge of the CJI Annual Dinner for all but one of the last seven years. She was an Adjunct Professor (teaching ADR) at the DU Sturm College of Law for four years. She has been a member of the Minoru Yasui Inns of Court of 10 years. Since 2006, Connie has served as a member of the Deans' Diversity Council and is currently on the Board and the Strategic Planning Committee of the Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence. Since 2008 she has been a member of the CBA 2020 Law Firm Initiative Committee.

Connie was the 2009 recipient of the Colorado Bar Association's Award of Merit. She was one of the individuals honored by Colorado Common Cause with the 2009 Craig Barnes Democracy Award, for the establishment of a nonpartisan call center with 100 lawyers on election day in 2008. In 2007 she received the Alumni Professionalism Award from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and the Edwin P. Wolf Award from the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Contact Connie Talmage
Phone: (303) 894-6363
Email: ctalmage@coloradolawyerscommittee.org