Managing attorney
Amy Petré Hill
Amy Petré Hill is the Managing Attorney of CCDC Probate Power. With more than 20 years of experience in disability rights and legal advocacy, she brings both professional depth and personal insight to her work with individuals and families. Amy began her legal career in 1999 as an intern with the San Francisco Public Defender's Mental Health Unit, earned her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2002, and served as the Learning Disability Access Fellow at Disability Rights Advocates in Oakland before opening her own special education law practice. She joined CCDC in 2023, most recently as Co-Director of the Individual Advocacy Program, focusing on Medicaid advocacy, appeals, and policy.
Amy also holds a Master of Divinity from the Iliff School of Theology. She served as an interfaith mental health and spiritual care provider at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan and Advent Health's Porter Hospital in Denver, was the LEND Spiritual Care Fellow with JFK Partners — Colorado's University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities — and founded the interfaith Mental Health & Inclusion Ministries, which she led from 2021 to 2024. She is admitted to the California and Colorado Bars.
Amy's own experience as a neurodivergent person informs her deep commitment to disability rights and her understanding of the systems her clients navigate. She focuses her Probate Power practice on estate planning, special needs trusts, guardianships, and conservatorships.
Education
ILIFF SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, Denver, Colorado
M.Div., 2016UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW, San Francisco, California
Juris Doctor, 2002ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE, Santa Fe, New Mexico
B.A., Philosophy /Mathematics, 1994
Activities & Affiliations
National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Member
Colorado Bar Association, Elder Law Section, Trust and Estate Section, Member
Denver County Bar Association, Member
Colorado Access’ Regional Healthy CO for All Committee (RHCAC), Member
Bar Admission
California
Colorado
History
For more than 25 years, Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition (CCDC) has been the leader in promoting sound public policy that benefits people with all types of disabilities. CCDC is a nonprofit member-driven organization (2,000+ members statewide) whose mission is to advocate for social justice for people with all types of disabilities. CCDC defends against discrimination, abuse, and neglect, and supports people with disabilities to be contributing and engaged members of society.
Probate Power is CCDC's social enterprise legal program. As part of its mission to advocate for and support people with disabilities, CCDC created Probate Power to provide special needs planning, estate planning, probate administration, and Social Security Disability services directly to the Colorado disability community.
Probate Power’s purpose is twofold: 1) to provide high-quality special needs planning, estate planning, and probate administration services to the Colorado disability community and other non-disabled clients and 2) to provide a revenue stream for CCDC, allowing the nonprofit organization to expand its other services to benefit more Coloradans with disabilities.
Probate Power focuses exclusively on special needs planning, estate planning, and probate administration services. These services include, but are not limited to, simple and complex wills, special needs trusts, revocable living trusts, financial power of attorney documents, uncontested guardianships/conservatorships, ABLE accounts, and advanced medical directives. Probate Power was founded on the premise that everyone, especially the Colorado disability community, deserves high-quality, practical, and affordable legal representation.