Connie Talmage is an experienced arbitrator, lawyer, nonprofit executive and strategic thinker.

Connie served as the Executive Director of the Colorado Lawyers Committee from October 2000 to May 2023. She received her law degree from the University of Denver College of Law in 1978 and practiced for 10 years with the law firms of Holland & Hart and Ireland, Stapleton, Pryor and Pascoe. For four years, she served as the Director of the Office of Dispute Resolution, the statewide office of the Colorado Judicial Department responsible for mediation and other types of alternative dispute resolution in the courts. She is a trained mediator and arbitrator and has arbitrated for the American Arbitration Association for more than 35 years.

Connie has been a Trustee of the Colorado Bar Foundation since 2019 and is currently the Board Chair. She has been a volunteer and a member of the Board of Directors for Make-A-Wish Colorado for more than eight years and currently serves on the Executive Committee. She has served on the Our Courts Executive Committee since 2018. She has been a mentor through the DU Sturm College of Law and CAMP/CWBA since 2014. She is a member of the Alumni Council of the DU Sturm College of Law and taught ADR for seven years as an Adjunct Professor at the school. Connie is a former President and Board member of the Colorado Women's Bar Association Foundation; she was also on the Colorado Women’s Bar Association Board for five years.  For seven years, she served on the Colorado Access to Justice Commission, two years as the Chair. She was on the Board of the Colorado Judicial Institute from 1992 to 2012 and chaired the CJI Annual Dinner for nine years. From 2005 to 2012 she was the CBA Judicial Liaison Section's representative to the CBA Board of Governors, having chaired the Section in 2004 and 2005.

Connie was the 2009 recipient of the Colorado Bar Association’s Award of Merit, the Association’s highest award. In 2007, she received the Alumni Professionalism Award from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and the Edwin P. Wolf Award from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. In 2010, Connie was honored as a Women Lawyer Nonprofit Leader by the Colorado Women’s Bar Association Foundation. She was one of the individuals recognized by Colorado Common Cause with the 2009 Craig Barnes Democracy Award, for the establishment of a nonpartisan call center with 100 lawyers on Election Day in 2008.