Helen Norton

Meeting of February 16, 2011 - EEOC to Examine Treatment of Unemployed Job Seekers

Helen Norton joined the Colorado Law faculty in 2007, after earlier serving as a visiting professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and as the E. George Rudolph Distinguished Visiting Chair at the University of Wyoming College of Law. Recognized with the 2008 and 2009 Excellence in Teaching Awards, her scholarly and teaching interests include constitutional law, civil rights, and employment discrimination law. Her articles have appeared in the Duke Law Journal, the William and Mary Law Review, and the Boston University Law Review, among others.She holds a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, where she served as Associate Editor of the California Law Review, and a B.A. from Stanford University, where she graduated with distinction.

She served as leader of President-elect Obama's transition team charged with reviewing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2008, and is frequently invited to testify before Congress and federal enforcement agencies on civil rights law and policy issues. Before entering academia, she served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, where she managed the Civil Rights Division's Employment Litigation, Educational Opportunities, and Coordination and Review Sections, and as Director of Legal and Public Policy at the National Partnership for Women & Families, where she practiced appellate litigation and engaged in administrative and legislative advocacy on a range of employment and civil rights matters.