Susan Berry Casey, PhD

Susan Berry Casey, PhD, has written for The Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, Boulder Daily Camera, Boston Globe, Concord (NH) Monitor, and Huffington Post. She is the author of Hart and Soul, an account of the 1984 presidential primary campaign. In her thirty-year career in politics and government, she has served as a top advisor to presidential candidates Sen. Gary Hart, Sen. Bob Kerrey, Sen. John Kerry, and Gov. Martin O’Malley. She has served on the Denver City Council and was a Denver mayoral candidate in 2003.

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Susan Berry Casey, PhD

Written by Susan Berry Casey, PhD

  • Photo of Jean Dubofsky, sitting in her office. The walls and shelves behind her are white, contrasting her orange sweater and red-framed eyeglasses. There are gold and silver-framed photos on the shelves, and a painting on the wall behind her. She is resting her chin on her closed right hand, and she is looking straight ahead at the camera.

    Nine Justices and One Colorado Lawyer

    In 1995, Boulder attorney Jean Dubofsky stood before nine U.S. Supreme Court justices to plead the case against Amendment 2, the 1992 amendment to the Constitution of the State of Colorado denying protections to gays and lesbians. On May 20, 1996, the Court ruled the amendment unconstitutional.

    This essay first appeared in the November/December 2016 issue of Colorado Heritage, and is an edited excerpt from the author’s book Appealing for Justice: One Colorado Lawyer, Four Decades, and the Landmark Gay Rights Case: Romer v. Evans.