Tom Cope
Tom joined CMC shortly after climbing his first fourteener in 1985. He was a member of CMC’s Risk Management Committee from 1998 to 2001 and served on the Executive Committee of the High Altitude Mountaineering Section in 2000 and as its chair in 2001-02. From 1996 to 2002, Tom was a member of the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative board. He has climbed all Colorado’s fourteeners, as well as the Mexican volcanoes, Mt. Elbrus, and Kilimanjaro.
Beginning in mid 2002, Tom spent fifteen months working on projects to promote the rule of law in the Republic of Moldova with the ABA’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative. Since returning to Colorado, he divides his time between practicing law part-time (focusing on natural resources, environmental, and public land law) and consulting on legal and judicial reform projects in Eastern Europe and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. He has a law degree and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from the University of Denver and a doctorate in history from The University of Chicago.