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The Honorable Robert R. Lung

By June 28, 2024

Judge Robert Lung provides presentations nationally and internationally on issues such as human trafficking, childhood trauma and resiliency to an exceptionally diverse audience base including the military, the medical field, the educational field (including the U.S. Department of Education and the Colorado Department of Education), various judiciaries in the U.S. and internationally, faith-based organizations, first-responders, mental health professionals and law enforcement.  In 2016 he was appointed by then Colorado Chief Justice Nancy Rice to serve on the Colorado Human Trafficking Council on which he served as Vice-Chair from 2018 to 2020.  In 2017 he was Presidentially appointed to the National Advisory Council on the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States on which he served from 2017 to 2022.  He was also Presidentially appointed to the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking from 2018 to 2020 and was elected the Chair in 2020.  In 2021 he served as an Adjunct Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and taught Human Rights Lawyering. In 2023 he had the honor of testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability regarding the passage of Federal anti-trafficking law. He also serves as a consultant with Office for Victims of Crime under the U.S. Department of Justice, the Office on Trafficking in Persons under the U.S. Administration for Children and Families, the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons under the U.S. State Department, the Blue Campaign under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). In his “free time” he works on writing his first book, a biography about hope and resiliency, and he endeavors to keep up with his two adopted sons in hiking and downhill mountain biking.