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Danielle Moore
 I am an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe. Although we moved to Colorado when I was in elementary school, most of my mother's family continues to reside on my reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota. I lived in Aurora, Colorado from the age of eight to the age of 18.
After completing high school, I attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire where I graduated with a degree in Native American Studies and with minors in Government and Psychology. While at Dartmouth, I received a grant to spend a term on my reservation working with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Services. I have always considered the time I spent in Belcourt to be of great influence, both in terms of the person I have become and in terms of my career goals.
I started a doctorate program at the University of Michigan in American History after graduating from Dartmouth, but decided to resign after a year because of my disillusionment with the theoretical leanings of the program. Instead, I decided to attend law school and I chose the University of Arizona College of Law because of its preeminent federal Indian law program as well as its reputation as a sound general legal studies program. I worked for the Federal Public Defender's Office in the Capital Habeas Unit while in law school, helping to represent death row inmates with their appeals in federal court.
Following law school, I returned to Colorado to practice and served as a Colorado Deputy State Public Defender and as an Assistant Attorney General in the Litigation Section of the Colorado Attorney General's Office. In those positions, I handled criminal and civil cases at the trial level and on appeal, and I otherwise represented individuals and governmental entities in almost every state and federal legal forum in Colorado, from small claims court to the United States Supreme Court.
I recently decided to move into the area of family law because I believe my litigation experience will translate quite naturally to the practice, and because of my interest in helping people navigate an often complicated and unfamiliar legal landscape during a very difficult time in their lives. At the core of my desire to be a lawyer rests an overriding commitment to help other people, even if it is one person at a time. Hence, I am very excited to be a member of The Harris Law Firm, P.C. team.
In addition, few people know that Denver was one of the original cities where the federal government relocated Native peoples pursuant to its 1950s Urban Relocation Program. I believe Native Americans are an historically underserved population when it comes to family law, and I intend to expend a portion of my efforts making up for this deficit in the Colorado community.
Finally, I spend much of my free time with my family and I also enjoy reading, seeing movies, and shopping.
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