Courtney E. Butler

I graduated from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, first in my class. While in law school, I was the president of the Spanish Speaking Lawyers Association, and I interned with a private local immigration law firm, the Denver Immigration Court, a corporate law firm in Caracas, Venezuela, and the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, where I continue to volunteer as a pro bono attorney.

After law school, I clerked for the Colorado Court of Appeals and the Vermont Environmental Court. I then spent two years working for a private Vermont law firm before returning to Colorado, my native state. While in Vermont, I provided volunteer legal assistance to several immigrant and refugee nonprofit organizations.  I have practiced exclusively immigration law since my return to Colorado in 2014.

I am an active member of the Executive Committee of the Colorado Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). I am also a past chair and current member of the Spanish Speaking Lawyers Committee of the Colorado Bar Association. I have represented clients before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), the Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Colorado Court of Appeals, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.  My immigration practice includes family, business, asylum, and removal defense.

I have lived in Argentina, Ecuador, and Venezuela, and I am fluent in Spanish. In my free time, I enjoy international travel, long distance running, ultimate Frisbee, camping, hiking, snowboarding, and photography, and I am attempting to learn Russian.