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<br />JANICE L.BURNETT <br />Office: Office of the Attorney General <br />1525 Sherman Street 3rd Floor <br />penver, CO 80203 <br />(303) 8663611 <br />EDUCATION <br />1869 Juris Doctor, University of Pennsylvania Scholl of Law <br />1986 Bachelor of Arts, with highest honors, Skidmore College <br />lJ <br />Home: (3035 E. 17th Ave. <br />Denver, CO 80220 <br />(3031388-7888 <br />Honors: gredusted first in class; Editor-in-Chief, Skidmore News (college newspaper); <br />elected to Periclean snow Phi Beta Kappal; Dean's List; editorial board, li i ,college <br />journal of opinion on the social sciences and philosophy; awarded Henry T. Moore Prize <br />in Government for best essay in the area of political science. <br />LEGAL EXPERIENCE <br />1878 m present Assistant Attorney Ganarsl, Natural Resources Section. <br />Concentrated experience in environmental and nature) rosources law es counsel to the <br />Division of Waste Management, Colorado Department of Health and as counsel to the Mined Land <br />Reclamation Board. Practice involves litigation, adminiRretive hearings and proceedings and <br />general legal advice in the areas of the hazardous and solid waste regulatory programs and <br />mining law. Significant eases include Denver v. Eggert (Lowry Landfill case) end ntain <br />States Leoel Foundation v. Costle (challenge Lo con~st~tutionelity of.EPA sanctions under the <br />federal Clean Air Act). <br />1975-1979 First Assistant Attorney General, Litigation Section. <br />Litigated cases in which the State was a party in state and federal courts. Substantive areas <br />involved ware exceedingly diverse, including water quality, contracts, perwnnei matters, medical <br />board prosecutions, consumer fraud, civil rights, NEPA, and constitutional challenges to state <br />statutes and agency operations and/or procedures. Served es office consultant on Govemmentaf <br />Immunity law and on all questions pertaining to State's tort liability imurence. Lectured on tfiis <br />abject tb the Federal Bar Association in February 1980. Responsibilities also included wpenision <br />of 5 attorneys and 1 investigator. <br />19731974 Trial Attorney, Denver Litigation Center, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. <br />Litigated EEOC v. Brown & Root in fallen) district court in Houston, Texas. Case resulted <br />M major consent decree with irgnifiant beck pay award. <br />1971-1973 Deputy State Public Defender, Darner office. <br />Practiced criminal law as defense counsel for Indigent defsndanb in Denver juvenile and district <br />courts. <br />1989-1971 Appellate Attorney, New York City Legal Aid Society. <br />Briefed and argued criminal eases before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeal:, New York Court <br />of Appeals end intermediate New York appellate courts. <br />BAR ADMISSIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS <br />Cobndo Bar, admitted 1871 <br />New York gar, admitted 1970 <br />Colorado Supreme Court Standing Committee oa Civil Rules of Procedure, appointed January, 1981 <br />Colorado Women'i Bar Aasodation <br />