Douglas R. Tueller
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Doug has been providing business and legal advice to clients and actively participating in business ventures in various capacities throughout the United States and internationally since 1982. Doug spent his academic years at University of Southern California, Stanford Law School, University of Vienna, and the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, Germany (as a Rotary Ambassadorial Fellow) studying, researching, translating and publishing.
Over the years, Doug has been engaged in a number of entrepreneurial ventures and has served in senior management-level and general counsel positions with privately-held real estate development and investment firms. These include associations ranging from small residential associations to highly complex mixed-use commercial, residential, retail communities throughout the West. Doug trained initially in Colorado with Holme Roberts & Owens (now Bryan Cave HRO) and in California with the international law firm Graham & James (now Squire Sanders). Immediately prior to moving his family to Telluride in 1992, Doug served as special counsel for The Disney Store Group, as it expanded its operations overseas and throughout North America.
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Doug has formed and has either chaired or served as general counsel for numerous nonprofit entities, both internationally and in California, Nevada and Colorado. Since moving to Telluride, he chaired the Rotary International in Post-Graduate Fellowship program in Colorado for over a decade, and the Telluride Rotary Scholarship Committee since the early 1990s. In 2014, he was elected chairman of the Rotary Foundation and he was appointed to the Colorado Bar Association Real Estate Section Committee in the summer of 2016. In the early 1990s, Doug also served on both the organizing committee and first Town Council responsible for forming the Town of Mountain Village near Telluride, Colorado.
Doug currently serves as general counsel for the Just for Kids Foundation, the Pinhead Institute, Telluride Arts, Mountains to Desert, and the Ah Haa School for the Arts. He was also active in the Telluride R-1 School District for over a decade, serving on numerous accountability, data, and principal/superintendent committees.
