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H&H Associate Joe Ramirez becomes President-elect of the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association.

H&H announces a Summer Associate Diversity Scholarship, becoming the first firm in the Rocky Mountain Region to offer a $10,000 Summer Associate Diversity Scholarship for second year law students. 

H&H announces an Academic Year Diversity Law Clerk Program, which will be launched at the beginning of the 2007-2008 academic year.

H&H Associate Jennifer Weddle serves as Chair of the 2007 Federal Bar Association Indian Law Conference.

H&H Associate Musu Brooks becomes President-elect of the Sam Cary Bar Association.

H&H Associates Tony Navarro and Jennifer Weddle are named to the Colorado Bar Association Board of Governors.

H&H Associate Musu Brooks is elected Secretary of the Sam Cary Bar Association.

H&H undertakes pro bono representation of Native American groups in amicus briefing to the Colorado Court of Appeals on connection with a case on the Indian Child Welfare Act.

H&H Associate Joe Ramirez is named Colorado Hispanic Bar Association Young Lawyer of the Year.

H&H Associate Jennifer Weddle serves co-chair of the Harvard Law School Celebration of Native American Alumni and is elected President of the Harvard Native American Alumni Committee.

H&H Associate Tony Navarro is elected Secretary of the Colorado Gay, Lesbian, Transgender Bar Association.

H&H Partner Chris Thomas is appointed to Board of Directors of LARASA.  H&H hosts reception benefiting LARASA featuring U.S. Senator Ken Salazar.   

H&H Associate Dan Pabon is appointed Hispanic National Bar Association Regional Deputy President for the Rocky Mountain Region (Region XIII).

Nine H&H attorneys serve as moot court judges and panelists for the National Black Law Students Association conference and competition held in Denver.

H&H Associate Tony Navarro is elected as a member of the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association Board.

H&H Partner Anne Castle is a finalist in the 2005 Denver Business Journal Outstanding Women in Business Awards.

H&H Of Counsel attorney Michael Carrigan is appointed to Board of Directors of LARASA.

For the first time, a contingent of more than 20 Holland & Hart attorneys and staff participate in Denver's Marade, honoring the work and message of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  The Marade is one of the largest in the country.

Holland & Hart establishes the "H&H Women's Forum" to offer a specific forum for communication between junior and senior H&H women and between them and client contacts.  The Forum premiered in July 2004 with two days of events specifically for Holland & Hart women partners, associates, and summer clerks.

H&H associate Jennifer Harvey Weddle serves as the Colorado Coordinator for the National Congress of American Indians Native Vote 2004 Election Protection Project, working directly with the Colorado Secretary of State to ensure protection of Native American's access to voting.

Holland & Hart attorneys and staff raise thousands of dollars to fund an educational trip to New York for nearly 20 West Tallahatchie middle school children, marking the first time the children have left the state of Mississippi.

H&H Associate Jennifer Harvey Weddle represents the National Native American Bar Association on the Advisory Committee to ABA American Jury Project.

Following a moving Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in-firm event and screening of the film Lalee's Kin, H&H leads a multi-state effort to provide many thousands of dollars work of much needed schools supplies and other aid to the children in West Tallahatchie, Mississippi.  In the process, H&H connects over 1400 elementary students in the Rocky Mountain west with kids in Mississippi as pen pals.  Through our non-profit charitable organization, the Holland & Hart Foundation, H&H employees arrange a Law Day speaker for the school for the West Tallahatchie high school for the first time ever.

H&H Associate Jennifer Harvey Weddle is elected Treasurer of the Colorado Indian Bar Association

H&H accepts a Recognition and Appreciation plaque from the National Council of Negro Women, Inc., Denver Section, for our firm's support of their First Annual African American Women's Leadership Conference.

H&H is part of a team undertaking pro bono representation of an individual Native American before the United States Supreme Court, arguing for support of tribal sovereignty and for a strong place for tribal courts in American federalism.

H&H hosts a reception to sign a Revised "Colorado Pledge to Racial and Ethnic Diversity" with guest speakers: Eric Holder, Deputy US Attorney General; Teveia Barnes, Executive Director of President Clinton's Lawyers for One America Committee; and Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey.

H&H Partner Marilyn Kite becomes the first woman to sit on the Wyoming Supreme Court.

ABA President Bill Paul appoints Jim Goh to the ABA's Council on Racial and Ethnic Justice.

H&H hosts a benefactor party and media preview for the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of the American Indian, under construction in Washington D.C.

H&H participates in the Colorado Pledge to Diversity Law Firm Group's Minority Summer Clerkship Program.  Our participation continues to date.

H&H Partner and then-Resources Department Chair, Anne Castle, is honored at 20th anniversary banquet of the Gateway Battered Women's Shelter for ten years of service as Gateway's outside general counsel.

Colorado AIDS Project (CAP) honors H&H Partner Patricia "Pia" Dean at its 7th Annual Leadership Recognition Dinner.  Pia has been an active CAP volunteer for more than 10 years, providing pro bono legal services to CAP clients, and serving as President of the Board of Directors.  Holland & Hart has been involved in groundbreaking AIDS litigation for more than 12 years and is a longtime supporter of CAP.

H&H expands our multi-office Indian Law Practice Group; assists a tribe in creating a tribal probate code; helps a tribe with tribal court reforms; creates a tribal forestry practices code to serve as model legislation and help the tribe administer its timber and logging rights; helps draft an agreement between a state and a tribal organization; and assists in mediation efforts in a land dispute between a tribe and the United States.

H&H undertakes pro bono representation of many homeowners in administrative proceedings to preserve largely low income, historically significant neighborhoods in Colorado Springs that are ethnically diverse and provide ever-dwindling affordable housing in the city.

In cooperation with the ACLU, H&H challenges the use by the Colorado Supreme Court's Board of Law Examiners of certain bar exam application questions to inquire about a bar applicant's history of mental health and substance abuse treatment, which our clients contend violate their right to privacy and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

H&H forms the Holland & Hart Foundation, a non-profit entity with a mission to build community through service, both within and outside the firm.

Jim Goh is invited to be a member of President Clinton's "Lawyers for One America" Initiative, in response to the President's call to the legal profession for action for racial justice and diversity in the legal profession in the new millennium.

H&H forms the Indian Law Practice Group, headed by Douglas Nash, Nez Perce Tribe member and former Chief Counsel in the Tribal Executive Committee's Office of Legal Counsel.

H&H receives the Outstanding Corporate Citizen Award by the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association for its contributions to diversity in support of the Hispanic Bar and in the community at large.

H&H associate (now partner) Jim Goh is elected Secretary of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.

Colorado Parent Magazine names H&H a Top Colorado Company for Working Parents for the first of three years in a row.

H&H Partner Tim Rastello acts as lead counsel in cooperation with the ACLU in a police brutality case settled after four years of hard-fought and time-consuming pro bono litigation.  The settlement not only compensates the plaintiffs, but also reduces the likelihood of future race-related improprieties and unlawful racial profiling by the Denver Police Department.

H&H begins offering group medical, dental and life insurance benefits to qualified same sex domestic partners of eligible H&H employees.

ABA Commission on Opportunities for Minorities in the Profession honors H&H for the firm's continued commitment to diversity at its conference in Washington, D.C. entitled "The Power of Diversity: Leveraging the Challenge of Change."

H&H Partner Greg Eurich, a past chair of H&H's Diversity Committee, heads a successful pro bono effort to overturn Colorado's Amendment 2, an amendment to the Colorado Constitution which attempted to deny basic rights to gay/lesbian/bisexual persons.

The Colorado Pledge to Diversity Law Firm Group signs the "Colorado Pledge to Racial and Ethnic Diversity."  The original, framed, signed document hangs at H&H.

H&H initiates the creation of the "Colorado Pledge to Diversity Law Firm Group," a group of 23 law firms jointly committed to increase the racial and ethnic diversity within their firms.  Susani Dixon co-chairs the Steering Committee.

H&H adopts its "Statement of Commitment to Diversity."  A framed statement hangs in every office at H&H.

H&H formally establishes its Diversity Committee (DIVCOM).

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H&H attorneys represent ACLU clients in cases seeking parental rights for homosexuals.

H&H begins funding the Annual H&H Minority Scholarship Awards at the University of Denver and the University of Colorado.