Justice Rebecca Love Kourlis believes in the foundations of the American legal system and has dedicated her career, both in and out of the courts, to ensuring that the system provides justice for all. She served Colorado’s judiciary for nearly two decades, first as a trial court judge and then as a justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. In January 2006, she resigned from the Supreme Court to establish the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS), where she served as Executive Director through 2019. Her work at the helm of IAALS focused on creating a legal system that works for all people by being accessible, fair, reliable, efficient, and accountable. Her legal experience includes practice with a regional firm, a national firm, and a small practice in rural northwest Colorado where she worked in natural resources, water, public lands, oil and gas, and mineral law. She attended Stanford University and Stanford Law School.
