Mr. Beall serves as the deputy to Secretary of State Jena M. Griswold, a constitutional officer of the State of Colorado and the head of the Colorado Department of State. This agency is responsible for the supervision of elections in Colorado, as well as the regulation of campaign finance and lobbyist activities and various business functions in the state, including the registration of business entities, trademarks, trade names, and secured transaction filings. The office also is responsible for the regulation of charitable solicitations, non-profit bingo and raffle operations, and notaries public. Mr. Beall is responsible for all four divisions of the Department and is the final agency decisionmaker on all campaign finance, lobbyist, and notary public complaints.
Mr. Beall teaches as a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, lecturing on copyright, trademark, and free expression law.
Prior to joining the Secretary of State’s office, Mr. Beall was one of eight deputies to Attorney General Phil Weiser, responsible for the Business & Licensing Section in the Colorado Department of Law.
Mr. Beall’s career in the private sector focused on work for publishing and news media companies as a First Amendment and intellectual property litigator in New York City. He previously was a partner at the firms of Fox Rothschild and Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz in New York and Faegre & Benson in Denver. Mr. Beall served as a law clerk to the Hon. David Ebel, a circuit judge for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Mr. Beall was awarded a juris doctor degree summa cum laude from Duke University Law School, and he received his bachelor of arts degree from Yale University.