Victoria Lutz, JD

Biography

Victoria Lutz, JD

From 2004 to 2012 Vicki was the executive director of Crossroads Safehouse, and during the decade prior to 2004 she held the same title at New York’s Pace Women’s Justice Center. She has been a law professor, a prosecutor, and a faculty member at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. She has trained thousands on gender violence issues in America, Canada, and Africa, and authored more than 17 books or articles. Under a 2012-2014 Colorado University grant, she was a statewide consultant for domestic violence programs and, starting in 2016, she has taught “Interpersonal Violence Law and Public Policy” in CUDenver’s School of Public Affairs Master Program. She provides domestic violence expert counsel and testimony in domestic relations, civil, and criminal cases and performs grant review for the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women. She is admitted to the Colorado and New York bars. Her most recent articles are “A Guide to Domestic Violence Expert Testimony in Colorado,” 45 Colo. Law. 63 (Nov. 2016) and “Domestic Violence Expert Testimony: A Guide for the Judiciary,” Court Review (Spring 2017).