Barbara J. Kelley, JD'73
Barbara J. Kelley's law career began as many do. She began private practice at Denver's Dawson Hagel Sherman & Howard and then moved on to travel the globe as a partner with Morrison & Foerster, where she worked in the Denver, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong offices.
She is a committed civic leader, serving for many years on the board of Denver's Winter Park Recreational Association and on the Denver Planning Board. Kelley is a member and former chair of the board of trustees of the National Sports Center for the Disabled, an organization that employs specially trained instructors who work with children and adults suffering from disabilities to help them discover their athletic abilities.
Kelley exhibits leadership in the law community as well. She served on the Colorado Bar Association board of governors and as chair of its real estate section, and on the Colorado Supreme Court Grievance Committee. In 1990, she was appointed by then-Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles to the Christopher Commission, an independent commission headed by Warren Christopher, to investigate excessive use of force against minorities. She currently serves on the board of directors for both the Colorado Judicial Institute and the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado.
Her extensive experiences in general commercial and business matters as well as corporate and municipal financing transactions, commercial banking, and commercial real estate play a major role in her current partnership with Kamlet Shepherd & Reichert in Denver.