Bio
Conor Gleason was hired as an Immigrants' Rights Attorney at the ACLU of Colorado in May of 2026. Prior to joining the ACLU of Colorado, Conor focused on federal litigation and removal defense as a Senior Attorney at the Meyer Law Office in Denver from 2024 until 2026. Conor first moved to Colorado from New York in 2021 to join the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network ("RMIAN") as a Senior Staff attorney, where he practiced removal defense and habeas litigation. Before joining RMIAN, Conor was a supervising attorney in The Bronx Defenders’ immigration practice in New York. He joined The Bronx Defenders as an attorney in 2012 and began supervising in 2015. While at The Bronx Defenders, Conor was one of the first six attorneys in the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, the first universal representation project in the United States for detained noncitizens.
Conor graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2012. Prior to law school, Conor lived in Ecuador for a little over a year and worked for almost three years as an Investigator in The Bronx Defenders’ criminal defense practice. Conor received his undergraduate degree from Colby College in Waterville, ME, graduating magna cum laude in 2005. Conor is admitted to practice law in New York, the Southern District of New York, the District of Colorado, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. His practice in Colorado is temporarily authorized pending admission under C.R.C.P. 205.6. Conor is fluent in Spanish and enjoys being outside in his free time. He is humbled every day by the courage, wisdom, and strength of the people in ICE's jails facing removal.