Martha Fulford

Adjunct Faculty

401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
401 UCB
Boulder, CO  80309
E-mail: martha.fulford@colorado.edu

Bio:
Martha Fulford is an Assistant Deputy at the Colorado Attorney General's Office. She leads the office's civil rights work, including housing and worker protections, and pattern or practice investigations. She also serves as the consumer credit administrator, enforcing laws related to consumer lending, private education lending, student loan servicing, mortgage servicing, debt collection, and debt settlement.

Before joining the AG's office, Martha was senior counsel at the National Student Legal Defense Network, representing student loan borrowers in impact litigation against student loan servicers and the U.S. Department of Education.

From 2012 to 2018, she served in the Legal Division at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where she advised agency leadership on administrative law, Dodd-Frank authorities, and federal consumer financial law, and served as the student lending lead for the Legal Division.

Martha clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Tucker L. Melançon and for Judge Michael A. Chagares on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a double major in history and international studies. She earned her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a James Kent Scholar and managing editor of the Columbia Law Review.

Courses:

Fall 2025 Consumer Protection Laws and Policies LAWS 6031-801
Fall 2023 Consumer Protection Laws and Policies LAWS 6031-801



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