Mindy Barton is the newly appointed Legal Director at The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of Colorado for CLIP, The Center’s Legal Initiatives Project.  Her work involves handling calls on the legal information hotline as well as working with Equal Rights Colorado on public policy and advocacy.   

She has a B.A. in Speech Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law.  She is proud to have clerked for the Illinois Appellate Court for several years and practiced civil litigation in both Illinois and Colorado.  Most recently her time was spent working as a volunteer attorney for the ACLU of Colorado and teaching elementary school children in Denver Public Schools through a program called Open World Learning.