Sumi Lee serves as the Head of Judicial Diversity Outreach at the State Court Administrator’s Office of the Colorado Judicial Department. In this role, her work focuses on education and outreach efforts regarding the pathway to the bench, with a specific emphasis on strengthening the bench pipeline that reflects the rich diversity of Colorado’s communities. Ms. Lee has been a licensed attorney in Colorado since 2011 and began her legal career with the Colorado Judicial Department at the Denver Probate Court. She also served as a Self-Represented Litigant Coordinator in the program’s inaugural class in 2013 before working as a trust and estate advisor in the private sector. Ms. Lee is a Past President of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Colorado and a graduate of the Colorado Bar Association Leadership Training Program (COBALT) and Leadership Denver. She currently serves as the treasurer of the Colorado Asian Pacific American Bar Foundation and as a board member of Law School Yes We Can. She received her B.A. from Georgetown University and a J.D. from New York Law School.