Monica Marquez is the Deputy Attorney General for State Services at the Colorado Attorney General's Office. Monica grew up in Grand Junction and graduated from Stanford University in 1991. After college, she served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps as an inner-city school teacher and community organizer in Camden, NJ and Philadelphia, PA. She graduated from Yale Law in 1997, clerked for two federal judges, and then joined Holme, Roberts & Owen, LLP in 1999 as a litigation associate. She has been with the Attorney General's Office since 2002. Before becoming Deputy AG for State Services in June 2009, she served in the Criminal Appellate Division, the Public Officials Unit, and as Assistant Solicitor General. Monica has served on the Board of the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association since 2001, as President of the Colorado GLBT Bar Association in 2005, and as Chair of the Denver GLBT Commission in 2008. She continues to volunteer her time with the GLBT Bar assisting with the website, listserv, and other matters. Monica played trumpet for many years in the mariachi Coro Guadalupano at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Northwest Denver, and in 2007 she joined the Dead Sinatras (Denver's Premiere Lesbian Retro Band). She lives with her partner of 11+ years and their two labradors in Stapleton.

email: marquezm322@msn.com

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