Meet the Director

Confidentiality is Key to Dignity

-Julie Kunce Field, J.D.

The Executive Director of The Confidentiality Institute, Ms. Field is a nationally recognized leader on issues concerning confidentiality and privilege as they relate to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. A former law professor at the University of Michigan, the University of Denver College of Law, and Washburn Law School, she serves as an adjunct and guest lecturer at the University of Colorado at Denver in the Graduate School of Public Affairs. Since 1998, she has taught confidentiality and privacy issues all over the United States to agencies, attorneys, judges, law enforcement, prosecutors, child protection workers, and advocates, and has written articles, books, and book chapters on confidentiality, family law and other issues related to domestic violence. She has recently lent her expertise to the National Task Force to End Domestic Violence, the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the VERA Institute of Justice, the Battered Women’s Justice Project, the Department of Justice, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the American Judges’ Association, Carnegie-Melon University, the State of New Mexico, and numerous other state and national organizations.