Beth McCann is a faculty member at Vera Causa Group, bringing extensive prosecutorial and leadership experience from her historic role as Denver's first female elected District Attorney, serving from 2017 to 2025. During her tenure, she established separate units to prosecute human trafficking, elder abuse, and juvenile crime, while implementing progressive reforms including alternatives to incarceration for people with mental health and substance abuse issues and creating a Conviction Review Unit.

 

Beth's approach emphasized transparency, accountability, and community engagement through public dashboards, community meetings, and having deputy DAs speak to neighborhood groups. She conducted a race and justice internal study to examine systemic racism in case handling and implemented innovative programs including a warrant forgiveness program and full-time enforcement of domestic violence gun surrender requirements.

 

Her leadership experience includes serving as Denver's first female Manager of Safety in the early 1990s, overseeing the Denver Police, Fire and Sheriff's Departments with a budget of over $180 million while establishing Denver's Safe City program, which contributed to a 20% decrease in youth crime. As a four-term state representative for House District 8, she passed landmark legislation on human trafficking, juvenile justice reform, domestic violence protections, and gun safety including universal background checks.

 

Beth began her legal career as a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Sherman G. Finesilver, followed by nearly eight years as Deputy and Chief Deputy District Attorney in Denver prosecuting hundreds of cases including child abuse and murders. She also served as Deputy Attorney General supervising Civil Litigation, Corrections and Employment law sections and worked as a partner in private civil litigation practice.

 

Beth graduated magna cum laude from Wittenberg University with a B.A. in American Studies and earned her law degree from Georgetown University Law School.