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Mary Anne Harvey has been the Executive Director of The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People since 1980. She has been active in the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) as a former Board member, past president, and trainer. She developed the orientation NDRN sponsors for new executive directors and serves on the NDRN committee that advises staff on training for management of these organizations. In addition, she participated in the development of national standards and outcome measurements for protection and advocacy systems.

She currently serves as Secretary of the Board of the Colorado Nonprofit Association. As a returning member to this Board, she is a past president. In addition, she is a past president of the Center for Nonprofit Excellence and Warren Village, an organization providing housing, childcare and services to single parents who have been on welfare or need support to become self-sufficient. One of her personal goals is to help develop organizations through empowering staff members and Board members to achieve their mission and provide excellent services.

Ms. Harvey has a Bachelor’s Degree in English from the University of Wyoming and has taken graduate course work in education at Wichita State University and in public administration at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Randy Chapman is the Director of Legal Services at The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People, Colorado’s Protection and Advocacy System. Mr. Chapman has represented people with disabilities for 27 years focusing on enforcing the rights of persons with disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and protecting persons with disabilities from abuse and neglect. He has made more than 400 presentations on the rights of persons with disabilities, nationally and in Colorado.

Mr. Chapman is the author of the first and second editions of The Everyday Guide to Special Education Law, (The Legal Center 2005 and 2008), Guiï€ˆa de la Ley de Educacioï€ˆn Especial (The Legal Center 2007), The New Handbook for Special Education Rights (The Legal Center 2000), Assistive Technology: Universe of Opportunities, (The Legal Center 1999), numerous articles regarding the legal rights of people with disabilities and authors RandyChapman’s Ability Law Blog at randychapman.wordpress.com providing practical comments and information regarding special education, early intervention, and disability law. He also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the IDEA Compliance Alert published monthly by Eli Research Inc.

In 1998 he was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award by the Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission. He has served as the Chair of the Legal Committee of the National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems and the Colorado Developmental Disabilities Council. Mr. Chapman graduated from the University of California, Davis with a BA in Political Science in 1974 and obtained his Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977.

Mark J. Ivandick started as the attorney in the Protection and Advocacy System for Individuals with Mental Illness program at The Legal Center in 1999, he achieved Senior Attorney status in 2003 and was recently promoted to Managing Attorney for The Legal Center’s Denver Office. As managing attorney, he works in all protection and advocacy programs, devoting over 50% of his time to the PAIMI program, investigating complaints from the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo, San Carlos Psychiatric Prison and other Department of Correction facilities. He also works on legislation and systemic issues affecting individuals with mental illness who are involved in the criminal justice system. Prior to coming to The Legal Center, he was in private practice in Tennessee since 1984. Mark graduated in 1973 from the United States Military Academy, served in the U.S. Army as an airborne infantry officer and as a member of The Judge Advocate General’s Corps with the 101^st Airborne Division. He received a Master’s Degree in Public Service from Western Kentucky University and a Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University. Mark’s legal career has required his admission to practice in Missouri, Tennessee, Texas and Colorado. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, 6^th and 10th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, The U.S. Claims Court and all Courts of Military Review.

Bill Higgins is the managing attorney of the Grand Junction office, assuming those responsibilities in February 2003. He graduated from the University of Denver School of Law in 1976. He served as a prosecuting attorney in the Adams County District Attorney's Office and then joined the Colorado Attorney General's Office. While with that office, Mr. Higgins represented medically-related licensing boards, including the State Board of Medical Examiners. He also served as counsel to the state-wide group that was charged with ensuring the State's compliance with the ADA in 1992-93. For almost fifteen years he represented the State in a variety of litigation, including class actions, particularly with respect to disability issues.

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