Andrew C. Montoya, Esq.
Legal Program Director
Andrew Montoya is the Civil Rights Legal Program Director for CCDC. Andrew has dedicated his professional career to the cause of disability rights, joining the Legal Program in 2005 as the Legal Program Assistant before returning as an attorney in 2010. Throughout the years, Andrew has litigated numerous cases under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, the Colorado Anti- Discrimination Act, and the Colorado Open Records Act. Andrew has also assisted CCDC’s legislative team in improving Colorado law related to people with disabilities, including working for the passage of HB21-1110, which put Colorado on the forefront of digital accessibility and imposed liability on governmental entities for disability discrimination under the state law. Andrew has served on the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act Rewrite Subcommittee since receiving his appointment by Governor Polis in 2023. Andrew is admitted to practice in the State of Colorado, the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and he is a member of the Colorado Bar Association, Disability Rights Bar Association and the Colorado Lawyers’ Civil Rights Coalition.
Born and raised in Denver, Andrew earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado State University at Pueblo in 2005, was awarded the LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Connected Fellowship through the Multicultural Corporate Counsel Association in 2009, and received his juris doctor from the Florida Coastal School of Law in 2010. When not working on litigation or legislation, Andrew can often be found in his kitchen passing family recipes on to the next generation or in front of a television wearing out game controllers of all sorts with his wife and three children at their home in Longmont.