Mark C. Morgan is the second of four children raised in New Orleans by LAW ENFORCEMENT ON THE STAND course creator Caren Cambre. Before earning his Jurist Doctorate at Tulane Law School in 1995, he was a NCCA Division I athlete at Ohio University in Athens Ohio, where he graduated cum laude, was an Conference All-Academic Athlete and was selected as the captain of the swim team. While at Tulane Law School, Mark was recognized with the James A. Wysoki award for his outstanding trial skills. In 1997 he was asked to return to Tulane Law School as a trial advocacy professor and became the youngest attorney to every join the faculty, a position he held for 22 years.
Mr. Morgan tried his first jury trial while he was still in law school with special permission from the Louisiana Supreme Court. He prosecuted or defended dozens of homicide cases, hundreds of property and personal crime cases, and approximately a thousand drug offenses, including more than 100 jury trials. Mark has held a police commission with the Gretna Police Department since 2009 and completed counter drug prosecution certification. Mark is currently the City Attorney and City Prosecutor for Durango, Colorado.
Mark served as the Gretna, Louisiana City Attorney and City Prosecutor from 2008 until 2021. He is a former Assistant District Attorney in Jefferson Parish, Special Counsel to the Louisiana Attorney General, Magistrate Pro Tempore–Gretna City Court, and Judge Pro Tempore–Division “B” Second Parish Court of Jefferson. Mark has been a guest lecturer at Golden Gate Law School in San Francisco, an instructor at the Gretna Police Academy.
Mark has taught “Law Enforcement on the Stand” to police in Boston, Massachusetts for NESPIN; Billings, Montana for Rocky Mountain HIDTA; Baton Rouge, Jefferson Parish, Kenner and Gretna, Louisiana for Gulf Coast HIDTA; Colorado Springs and Durango Colorado; Birmingham, Alabama; and Pensacola, Florida.
He is licensed to practice law in Louisiana, Washington DC and Colorado. He relocated to Colorado in 2020 with his wife, who is a trauma surgeon and Captain in the United States Navy.
Colorado, Louisiana and District of Columbia prosecutor, Mark C. Morgan
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