Helen E. Morgan
Denver District Attnys Office
Helen E. Morgan, Esq. graduated cum laude from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota with a B.A. in political science and Spanish in 1986. She subsequently received her J.D. from the University of Minnesota and clerked for the Honorable John J. Sommerville in Hennepin County before moving to Colorado in 1993. She joined the Denver District Attorney's Office in 1994 as a deputy district attorney. As a deputy district attorney Ms. Morgan worked in the county, juvenile, drug and gang divisions until she was promoted to Chief Deputy District Attorney in 2001. As a Chief Deputy District Attorney she supervised a district court courtroom until she was assigned to head a state-wide prosecution of a white supremacist prison gang in 2004. In 2006 Ms. Morgan became the Chief of the District Attorney's Drug Unit. In this capacity she worked with the court and other agencies to establish Denver's reorganized drug court which opened on March 1, 2007. Ms. Morgan continued to supervise the deputies and staff in the District Attorney's Drug Unit until January 2010 when she once again became Chief of a district court courtroom.
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