Elizabeth Cooper Fuselier, 1983 (Swimming)
Elizabeth Cooper Fuselier was a strong breaststroker for Syracuse swimming. During her four years she competed in the AIAW National Championships as a freshman, sophomore and junior and was a finalist in the first BIG EAST Women’s Championship in 1983. Fuselier was also part of the 200 and 400 medley relay teams that set then-Syracuse records and took fifth and sixth at the Eastern Championship.
Fuselier earned her undergraduate degree in special education in 1983 and a Master’s degree in emotional disturbance and autism in 1985. In 1990, she earned her law degree from Creighton University School of Law. Since 2002, she has worked as a senior attorney and program coordinator for the Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People. Fuselier began her legal career as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Graham Ross in Somerset County. She then worked for two private firms before joining the Office of the District Attorney in Englewood, Colorado, as a deputy district attorney, where she worked from 1995 to 1997.
An active member of the community, Fuselier works with the Junior League of Denver, where she has served on numerous committees in leadership roles. She was a member of the Arapahoe House Board of Directors for nine years (1996-2004), a non-profit organization that serves people with substance abuse issues in metropolitan Denver. She was also a volunteer attorney for both Project Safeguard and Permanent Restraining Order Project for two years from 1994 to 1995.
