Phil Weiser was elected as the 39th attorney general of Colorado in 2018.  He serves as the state’s chief legal officer. Previously, he served as a professor of law and dean of the University of Colorado Law School, where he founded the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship.  Weiser served in senior leadership positions in the Obama administration, including as a deputy assistant attorney general in the USDOJ and as senior advisor for technology and innovation at the White House’s National Economic Council.  Earlier in his career, he co-chaired the Colorado Innovation Council and served in President Bill Clinton’s Department of Justice.  After graduating law school, he worked in Denver for Judge David Ebel on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals and held two clerkships at the United States Supreme Court, for Justices Byron White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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