Jodi is a founding Partner in Martin Law Office LLC and has 17 years of experience as an attorney.  Prior to 2012, Jodi practiced in the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma area.  Jodi's career began with serving as an Assistant District Attorney for the Oklahoma County District Attorney's Office for six years.  As an Assistant District Attorney, Jodi was assigned to a special victims unit where she focused on cases involving sex crimes, child victims, domestic violence, and homicides.  She left the District Attorney's office to enter private practice, where she spent the next eight years litigating cases at an Oklahoma City mid-size law firm.  As a Partner at that firm, Jodi supervised and led a team of attorneys focused on litigating employment and civil rights lawsuits.  During her fifteen plus years of litigation practice, Jodi has had occasion to try over fifty cases to a jury and a multitude of trials to the Court, as well as multiple oral arguments before both the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.  

In 2012, Jodi relocated to Colorado to pursue a client-centered practice focused on strengthening, protecting and advocating for her clients and their families, to include a special focus on the legal needs of the LGBT community, their allies, and individuals impacted by HIV/Aids. 

EDUCATION

Oklahoma City University School of Law, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Juris Doctorate, 1997

Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Bachelor of Science, Magna Cum Laude, 1994

BAR ADMISSIONS

Oklahoma, 1997

Colorado, 2012

U.S. District Court, Colorado, 2012

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma, 2003

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Oklahoma, 2003

U.S. District Court, Western District of Oklahoma, 2003

U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, 2003

US. Supreme Court, 2009

PUBLISHED CASES

Littlejohn v. State, 85 P.3d 287, 2004 OK CR 62

Green v. Bd. of County Com'rs of Canadian County, 472 F.3d 794 (10th Cir. 2007)

Meyer v. Bd. of County Com'rs of Harper County, Oklahoma, 482 F.3d 1232 (10th Cir. 2007)

Vasek v. Bd. of County Com'rs of Noble County, 186 P.3d 928, 2008 OK 35

Poindexter v. Bd. of County Com'rs of County of Sequoyah, 548 F.3d 916 (10th Cir. 2008)

Underwood v. Bd. of County Com'rs of County of Jefferson, 611 F. Supp. 2d 1223 (W.D. Okla. 2009)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Colorado Bar Association

Boulder County Bar Association

National LGBT Bar Association

Colorado GLBT Bar Association

Oklahoma Bar Association

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

20th Judicial District Judicial Nominating Commission, Commissioner, Appointed 2015 to 2021

Out Boulder, Board of Directors, Vice-President, 2013

 

Seminars

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Books