About Trish Elledge of The Elledge Group

Trish Elledge, MA, began as an independent contract mediator with JD18 ODR Multi-Door Court Services (MDCS) in December 1994 and was soon asked to add the role of Program Administrator. A pioneer in the field, Trish began her training to become a professional mediator in 1985. She has since accumulated over 800 hours of advanced mediation training from mentors across the US and UK, in addition to hundreds of continuing education and research hours in such specialized content and law-related topics as contracts, landlord tenant, HOA, employment, dependency and neglect, divorce, parent responsibility, child support, personal injury, torts, negligence, medical issues and consideration, collections, insurance/subrogation and more. Trish has mediated over 6500 cases, most of which have been involved in litigation and which have spanned disputes from neighborhood trash piles to workplace discrimination to “who gets the towels in our divorce.” She is president of an expansive ADR company, The Elledge Group, Inc., which provides mediation, arbitration and training services to individuals and organizations across the US, Canada, and the UK.

In her native Boise, Idaho, Trish was an originating mediator with the 4th JD “Friends of the Court” program, a leader and trainer with The Sounding Board Community Mediation Program, and spearheaded a statewide effort to introduce peer mediation programs into Idaho schools. After moving to Denver in 1991, she continued both locally and nationally to develop public awareness in the use of mediation and in the profession itself. Trish is the founder and director of the International Alliance of Certified Professional Mediators (IACPM), established in 2008, is a practitioner/trainer member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), and has been an active member of Colorado Council of Mediators and Mediation Organizations (CCMO) since 1990 serving on public relations, speakers’ bureau, judicial committees and more. She currently chairs its Professional Mediator Application Review Committee.