Background
Mitchell received a B.S. magna cum laude from Brigham Young University and graduated from law school at the University of California at Berkeley.
He is now an attorney in a private law practice in Denver and Adams Counties. Mitchell served as Special Counsel to the Colorado Attorney General, where he was a legal policy advisor and one of the top aids to former Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton. He worked on significant litigation, including the Amendment 2 case and First Amendment litigation on issues of church and state. Mitchell also represented Colorado in fighting criminal appeals in the Colorado Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court.
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