In February 2023, Amy (Monger) Parsons '99 became the 16th president of Colorado State University (CSU). Her career began as a commercial litigation attorney for Brownstein Hyatt Farber (now Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck) before serving in senior executive leadership roles at CSU for 17 years. She served as associate legal counsel, deputy general counsel, vice president for university operations and vice chancellor for the CSU System before stepping into the role of president last year.
From a young age, two things were crystal clear for Parsons: she knew she wanted to live in Colorado, and she knew she wanted to be a lawyer. Parsons earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from CSU before making the move to Boulder to earn her JD at Colorado Law.
“I just set my sights on staying close and going to CU,” she said.
Her deep love for Colorado and desire to practice law in the state meant CU was the perfect place to dive into her legal studies.
At Colorado Law, Parsons served as an associate editor on the Colorado Law Review, Vol. 70, and took courses in all sorts of practice areas—from litigation and constitutional law to legislation and natural resource law. “I really enjoyed Charles Wilkinson’s classes,” she noted of the late distinguished natural resources law professor and partial namesake of the Getches-Wilkinson Center. “He was just so entertaining and enthusiastic and real fun to work with.”
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