Kelly A. Rosenberg
Colorado Attorney Mentoring Program
Kelly Rosenberg grew up in Riverton, Wyoming, and received her B.S. in Molecular Biology from the University of Wyoming. She graduated from Willamette University College of Law in 2004. She began her career as an oil and gas attorney. In 2007, she became an Assistant Attorney General for the Colorado Department of Law where she was general counsel to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. In 2010, she was assigned as the general and litigation counsel to the Colorado Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division where she played a key role in the Division's early work to craft its regulatory structure. Kelly worked on a five-person team that drafted, edited, and reviewed all rules adopted by the agency. She served as the primary editor and legal eye to ensure compliance with the governing laws. As general and litigation counsel to the MED, Kelly also routinely defended Colorado's marijuana laws in state and federal court, and provided day-to-day legal counsel to the Division on a variety of legal matters. Kelly also carried a full administrative case load. Kelly now works as a Senior Associate at Vicente Sederberg, a Denver-based law firm that handles marijuana matters. She is a member of the firm's new government consulting division, which assists governmental entities in the process of drafting marijuana laws, ordinances, and regulations.
(06/17)
