Executive Director & Senior Fellow
MJ Menendez is the Executive Director of the Center for Forensic Science and Education where she is also a Senior Fellow in Forensic Jurisprudence. M.J. earned her law degree from the University of Colorado in May of 1991. She served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Colorado for 13 years. During that time, she was detailed to the Department of Justice’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces headquarters in Washington, D.C. where she was the national Heroin, Opioids, and Fentanyl Special Projects Coordinator. M.J. has also spent ten years as a Deputy District Attorney and three years as a district court judge in Jefferson County, Colorado. M.J. teaches at the Robert F. Borkenstein Alcohol course hosted at the Center for Studies of Law in Action, as well as the Borkenstein Drug course, and she has presented nationally and internationally on issues relating to the intersection of law and forensic science. M.J. currently serves as Executive Vice President for the National Association of Medical Examiners.
