Ann England

Ann England is the Director of the Korey Wise Innocence Project at the University of Colorado School of Law. She was the founder of the Korey Wise Innocence Project which has five additional attorneys and works on advocacy, education, and litigation for innocent individuals in Colorado prisons.  Before that she taught in the Criminal Defense Clinic at the University of Colorado, School of Law. Ms. England has been a Clinical Law Professor at the University of Colorado, School of Law since 2005. She also regularly teaches Poverty Law, Wrongful Convictions, Jury Selection, Comparative Criminal and Juvenile Law, and Trial Advocacy courses. She is currently the Schaden Chair for Experiential Learning and an Elizabeth Cook Distinguished Faculty Fellow. Yearly she coordinates a nationally recognized training for capital defense attorneys in voir dire. She is an active board member of the Colorado ALCU and a prior board member of the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar. Before becoming a clinical law professor, she worked as a trial attorney at the Federal Public Defender's Office in Colorado and the Colorado State Public Defender's Office. At the Colorado State Public Defender's Office, she worked in Arapahoe, Adams, Weld, Logan, and Denver Counties as a Deputy State Public Defender. She later became a division lead at the Colorado State Public Defender's Office in Denver. Ms. England received her J.D. from the University of Denver, in 1995, Sturm College of Law; B.A. from the University of Michigan, in 1990.