Lara Mullin

Lara Mullin is a Chief Deputy District Attorney at the Denver District Attorney’s office. She received a J.D. from the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver in 2006. She clerked for Judge Catherine Lemon from 2006-2007 and then entered the DA’s office. She has been with the office for 15 years and prosecuted homicides, human trafficking, sex crimes against children, felony child abuse and domestic violence cases. She currently oversees the Human Trafficking unit which is a team of seven that prosecutes both sex and labor trafficking cases. She has trained law enforcement and community organizations throughout the country on the indicators of human trafficking and assisted with the development of response protocols in the Denver medical community and within the Denver Sheriff’s Department. Lara was instrumental in drafting and generating bi-partisan support for two important pieces of human trafficking legislation in 2018 – a safe harbor bill providing immunity to juvenile victims of trafficking and a wage theft bill to assist in combating labor trafficking. She was also successful in bringing together a group of stakeholders to pass an ordinance through Denver City Council to license massage businesses to assist in the identification and elimination of illicit massage businesses. Lara is an expert consultant for NW3C (National White Collar Crime Center) and is currently working on a Human Trafficking Prevention Curriculum for schools nationwide.