Biographies
Present and Past CADP Leadership
Elizabeth Anderman is currently a Ph.D.
candidate in the Department of English at
the University of Colorado. A community activist
and fundraiser whose nonprofit involvement
has included: Chair of the ACLU of Colorado
Board of Directors, Development Committee
Chair for the Board of Directors of KBDI
Channel 12, and Secretary of Theater in the
Park.
Kate Black, a native Coloradan,
is a law student at the University of Denver.
She began her work against the death penalty
training as a post-conviction investigator
at the Gulf Region Advocacy Center (GRACE)
in Houston, Texas. Inspired by legendary
trial attorneys Danalynn Recer and Kathryn
Kase, Kate has developed a passion for working
on capital cases at the trial level and plans
on returning to Texas after graduation to
aid in their efforts.
Don Bounds is on the Colorado
ACLU's Board of Directors, where he is co-chair
of the
Education Committee and a member of the Legal
Panel and Speaker's Bureau. He is very active
in community service and volunteer work.
He is a Past President of CADP.
Conor Boyle joined the
CADP board in 2009 hoping to educate Coloradans
about the many costs of the death penalty.
He has worked as an educator in Catholic
high schools in Portland, OR, and Washington,
D.C., before recently moving to teach high
school students in Denver.
Tamara Brady has been a
public defender (PD) since 1991. She is currently
a Chief Trial Deputy for the PD office and
works defending clients who are facing the
death penalty. Tamara has been on the board
since 2008, and has been a supporter of
CADP since it was called the Colorado
Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty back
in the late 80s.
Angela Campbell works as
a Deputy State Public Defender. Angela has
served as Secretary on the Board of CADP
since 2006. Angela helped organize events
such as performances of "Exonerated," community
theater performances of Sister Helen Prejean's "Dead
Man Walking," a religious community
panel, student debates, and former Illinois
death-row inmate Gary Gauger speaking on
his wrongful conviction for his parents' murders.
Randy Canney is a criminal
defense lawyer in Denver and a former deputy
state public
defender. His opposition to the death penalty
is longstanding and he has handled the defense
of death penalty cases. He is a Past President
of CADP.
Karen A. Chaney is a lawyer specializing
in criminal appeals and postconviction cases,
and a former newspaper reporter. She has
been opposed to the death penalty since working
on her first capital case in 1985.
Lisa Cisneros, volunteer
Executive Director of Coloradans Against
the Death Penalty, is instrumental in day
to day operations and the organization of
the group's political influence. With ten
years experience working as a paralegal for
a criminal defense attorney, and extensive
knowledge of both the court and political
systems, Lisa was instrumental in organizing
groups in support of Colorado House Bill
1274 to abolish the death penalty in Colorado
in 2009. Prior to assuming the Executive
Director duties, Lisa had been a member of
Coloradans Against the Death Penalty for
five years, and has worked tirelessly for
the last ten years with a defense team on
a high profile death penalty case.
John Emelin has extensive and varied experience
in the music and entertainment business.
He currently is a real estate appraiser and
voice-over artist.
Sonny Flowers practices law with Hurth,
Yeager, Sisk & Blakemore, LLP in Boulder,
Colorado. He has lectured extensively on
trial law in Colorado, and nationally for
the ABA and ATLA. He is a member of ATLA's
Executive Committee, president of the ATLA
Council of Presidents, and chair-elect of
the State Delegates. He tries cases in the
areas of torts, commercial and criminal law.
Steven Foster is the Senior Rabbi of Congregation
Emmanuel in Denver. He currently is president
of the Denver Area Interfaith Clergy Conference
and serves on the board of many organizations
including the ACLU, the Allied Jewish Federation,
the National Conference of Christians and
Jews.
H. Patrick Furman is a clinical professor
and Director of Clinical Programs at the
University of Colorado School of Law. He
has a great deal of experience in criminal
law, including death penalty cases. He is
active in and a frequent lecturer for the
Colorado Bar Association and the Colorado
Criminal Defense Bar (CCDB).
Lucia Guzman is an ordained minister in
the Methodist Church and the former executive
director of the Colorado Council of Churches.
After the murder of her father, she has been
active in the movement of murder victims'
relatives who oppose the death penalty. She
currently owns Lucia's Casa de Café and
recently was elected to the Denver School
Board.
Gary Jackson is a partner in the law firm
of DiManna & Jackson. His practice emphasizes
complex civil litigation, attorney grievance
and employment litigation. He is a former
chief trial deputy with the Denver District
Attorney and assistant U.S. Attorney for
the District of Colorado. Notwithstanding
his prosecutor experience, Gary has been
opposed to the death penalty throughout his
adult life.
Jim Joy is the former director of the National
Hemlock Foundation and for 23 years was the
executive director of the Colorado ACLU.
David Lindsey is a criminal
defense attorney. His representation of the
accused includes both trial and appeals in
both state and federal court. In addition,
a large portion of his practice is devoted
to the defense of defendants charged with
capital crimes at trial and on appeal. His
clients have included federal habeas representation
of Timothy McVeigh, as well as inmates on
death row in Colorado, Wyoming, and Texas.
In addition to practicing law, Mr. Lindsey
is an adjunct professor of law at Denver
University School of Law teaching a class
in advanced criminal procedure and motion
practice.
David Lipka is a law student at the University
of Colorado and is a member of the Community
Corrections Board for the 20th Judicial District.
His work against the death penalty began
when he volunteered for the "free lawyer" in
the New Orleans housing development where
Sister Helen Prejean lived and worked. He
later investigated over 30 capital cases
in Louisiana for Clive Stafford Smith. He
now works on capital cases for the Colorado
State Public Defender.
Vicki Mandell-King has
extensive criminal defense experience and
represented Gary Davis
in federal court and clemency proceedings.
She teaches appellate advocacy and is active
in her community. She is a Past President
of CADP.
Francisco Miraval is a
philosopher, writer, and journalist. Born
in Argentina, he has lived in the United
States since 1994 and is now an American
citizen. He is the Founder and President
of Project Vision 21, a bilingual news and
information service agency. Francisco volunteers
at different schools, churches, and nonprofit
organizations. He is a frequent guest on
many local radio and television programs,
and he hosts a weekly radio program in Spanish
about demographic and social changes.
Caitlin Kreck is a graduate
of Metropolitan State College of Denver with
a degree in Criminal Justice and Criminology.
Currently, she is working as an investigator
for the Public Defender's Office in Colorado
Springs. She hopes to eventually attend law
school. She would like to see more young
people involved in the anti-death penalty
movement.
David Lane is lawyer with a criminal defense
and civil rights litigation practice. He
is an instructor at both Colorado law schools.
He was the 1995 recipient of the CCDB's Jonathan
Olom Award and has worked on death penalty
cases in Colorado and other states.
J.D. MacFarlane was the Colorado Attorney
General from 1975 to 1983. He has also served
as a state representative, state senator,
chief deputy state public defender, deputy
district attorney and as Denver's Manager
of Safety.
Denise Madden is the Secretary
for Social Concerns at the Archdiocese of
Denver. She
is Archbishop Chaput's liaison to several
ethnic communities and is chairperson of
the Archdiocesan HIV and AIDS Ministry Committee.
For the past 15 years she served as the
Diocesan Director for Catholic Relief Services
and the Society for the Propagation of the
Faith. She is a Past President
of CADP.
Clyde H. Miller, Jr. is minister of the
First Congregational Church of Boulder and
formerly was minister of the Rocky Mountain
Conference of the United Church of Christ.
Charles Milligan is
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Iliff
School
of Theology
and is on the faculty of the University of
Denver. He was chair of the Colorado Coalition
to Abolish Capital Punishment in a 1966 referendum
and was chair of the Committee of Conscience
when Luis Monge was executed in 1967.
Lorraine Parker is an attorney who litigates
primarily complex civil and professional
malpractice cases. A former chief prosecutor
in Houston, Texas, she has seen firsthand
the inequities in the death penalty system
and opposes it in any form.
Gregory R. Piche is a partner in the Denver
office of Holland & Hart. He frequently
publishes and occasionally lectures at the
University of Colorado and Denver University
on medical/legal issues. He was faculty chairman,
co-author and editor of The Federal Rules
of Evidence Self Assessment Program. He also
conducts seminars for the Colorado Trial
Lawyers Association and Colorado Defense
Lawyer Association. He is a Past President
of CADP.
Dr. Byron Plumley is Coordinator of the
Justice Education Program and a faculty member
at Regis University in Denver. He has
been involved with prison work as a volunteer,
initiated a visitation program at Denver
County Jail in the late 70s, and has served
time in prison for nonviolent civil
disobedience related to the School of the
Americas at Ft. Benning, Georgia.
Lisa Radelet directed anti-death
penalty organizations in Texas from 1985-89.
Her
work included doing public education, lobbying,
working with the media, providing paralegal
assistance to attorneys and support to death
row inmates and their families. In 1990 she
moved to Florida, and from 1990-95, served
on the Board of Directors of the National
Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. She
moved to Colorado in 2001 and has been on
the Board of CADP since 2002. She is a
Past President of CADP.
Michael Radelet, formerly the chair of the
University of Florida sociology department,
is now with the University of Colorado's
sociology department. Radelet has been studying capital
punishment for more than 20 years and has
come to the conclusion that the death penalty
should be abolished. He discovered numerous
cases from around the country in which innocent
people were executed. He was a recipient of
the CADP Abolitionist of the Year award in
2004.
Rollie Rogers was the original head of the
Colorado State Public Defender's Office and
a lifelong abolitionist. He died in November
1998.
Alicia Roush is a law student
at the University of Denver Sturm College
of Law. She moved from Florida to Colorado
in 2004 and joined the CADP Board in 2005.
She is the current co-President of the DU
law chapter of NLG, co-Chair for the planning
committee for DU Law's annual Death Penalty
Awareness Week, and current President of
Coloradans Against the Death Penalty.
Dorothy Rupert was the state senator for
Senate District 18 in Boulder, and an educator
and counselor. Her goals include increasing
penalties for hate crimes and reforming Colorado's
criminal laws.
Dominic Saia is a lawyer with a general
civil and criminal defense litigation practice
in Boulder. He is a member of the Colorado
Bar Association, the Colorado Trial Lawyers
Association and the Colorado Criminal Defense
Bar.
Marshal Seufert is a criminal defense lawyer
and was the former executive director of
Community Educational Outreach. He has had
much experience working with offenders and
with nonprofit organizations.
Jim Sunderland was a Jesuit
priest who worked as a prison chaplain for
many years and who ministered to Gary Davis.
In his 2006 obituary, the Denver Post said
he "marched and preached against war and
capital punishment and pushed for prison
reform." He was the founder of a precursor
to CADP, the Colorado Coalition to Abolish
the Death Penalty.
Philip Tobias has served as the volunteer
Webmaster and e-mail list moderator for Coloradans
Against the Death Penalty since 1999. He
is a Boulder business communications professional.
He is also a longtime member of the ACLU,
Amnesty International and other human rights
groups, and has a lifelong opposition to
the death penalty.
Wendy Trafton is a member of the Board of
Directors of the National Coalition to Abolish
the Death Penalty. She is involved with youth
activism as a member of the Steering Committee
for Students Leading the Abolition Movement.
She is a recent graduate of the University
of Colorado where she participated in youth
activism against the death penalty.
Diane Tramutola-Lawson is
chair of Colorado CURE and vice-chair of
the Volunteer Partnership Subcommittee of
the American Correctional Association. She
is a retired law and government teacher.
Doug Wilson has extensive criminal law and
death penalty experience as a deputy state
public defender and office head with the
Colorado State Public Defender's Office.
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