Robert J. Golten Memorial Fellowship

Robert Joseph Golten “Bob” He received a B.A. from the University of Michigan (1954) and an LLB from Harvard Law School in 1959 after serving a two-year stint in the Army. After law school, Bob embarked on a colorful career as a public interest lawyer. He worked in the federal Justice Department for three years before serving as chief counsel for the Job Corps. As a federal public defender in the early 70’s in Washington, DC, he initiated and ran a program for involuntarily committed patients at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Bob subsequently worked as a litigator for the National Wildlife Federation and founded the clinical environmental program at the University of Colorado Law School. In the 1980s Bob worked for a law firm in Boulder serving Native Americans. He served for several years as County Attorney in Summit County, Colorado. In the early 1990’s Bob inaugurated the American Indian Law Clinic at the University of Colorado Law School. In the late 1990s Bob founded an International Human Rights Law and Advocacy clinical program at the University of Denver, subsequently moved to the University of Wyoming Law School. During this time Bob also helped develop clinical programs at law schools in Slovakia, Azerbaijan, Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Moldova.