Michael Norton

Michael J. Norton is an attorney with the Denver, CO law firm of Thomas N. Scheffel & Associates, P.C. Thomas N. Scheffel & Associates is a full-service law firm that focuses on, among other areas, estate planning and probate litigation, business law, and complex civil litigation. Norton is also president and general counsel of the Colorado Freedom Institute, a nonprofit legal organization dedicated to protecting religious freedom for Coloradans and for people across America in the public square, in our schools, and for our churches. The Colorado Freedom Institute also fights for the sanctity of human life and for traditional marriage and families. After a number of years in the private practice of law, beginning in 2011,Norton served for five years with Alliance Defending Freedom where heled efforts to prosecute healthcare frauds by abortion providers. He also successfully represented several for profit and non-profit organizations in their fight against the Obamacare abortion-pill mandate. In 1988, Norton was appointed United States Attorney for Colorado by President Ronald Reagan. During his five-year term as United States Attorney, Norton directed the U.S. Justice Department’s criminal and civil justice priorities in the State of Colorado. Norton earned his J.D. degree in 1968 from American University’s Washington College of Law Washington, D.C. He is admitted to the all Colorado courts, to several federal district courts, including Colorado, to several United States Courts of Appeals, and to the United States Supreme Court. In 2009, Norton earned a Masters of Divinity degree from Denver Seminary. Norton is married to Jane Ellen Norton, who served as Colorado’s 46th Lieutenant Governor from 2003 to 2007.The Nortons have 4 children, 7 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren. They are active members of Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church, Greenwood Village