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In 1970, the State Legislature passed Senate Bill 126, which created the Office of the State Public Defender as an independent state agency. Initially, the Colorado Supreme Court appointed the Colorado State Public Defender. Rollie R. Rogers was the first State Public Defender. He served from October 1969 through February 1978. On August 1 ...
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She started out as a deputy state public defender from 1982 to 1987, [4] [5] and served as a private practice attorney from 1987 to 1994. [3] In 1994, Jordan was appointed to the Denver County Court by Mayor Wellington Webb, and became the first Black female judge in the Rocky Mountain region. [6] Jordan retired in 2014 after 20 years on the bench.
The Judiciary of Colorado is established and authorized by Article VI of the Colorado Constitution as well as the law of Colorado.The various courts include the Colorado Supreme Court, Colorado Court of Appeals, Colorado district courts (for each of the 22 judicial districts), Colorado county courts (for each of Colorado's 64 counties), Colorado water courts, and municipal courts.
Grace Storey Merlo: [51] First female to serve as Public Defender for Montezuma County, Colorado (1970). She was also the first female to serve as a Judge of the 22nd Judicial District. Mary Johnson: [52] First female judge in Pitkin County, Colorado (c. 1960s) Carrie Clyde Holly: [53] First woman attorney in Pueblo County
The Wisconsin State Public Defender has been used as a model for other states and several countries. Wisconsin has a program that uses both staff attorneys and appointments to attorneys in private practice. State public defender systems can vary widely from state to state, county to county, and from federal defender organizations.
Martinez was a deputy state public defender in Denver from 1976 to 1979. when he relocated to Pueblo, Colorado to supervise state public defender's office there. In 1983, Governor Richard Lamm appointed Martinez to a county court judge seat in Pueblo County, and in 1988 Governor Roy Romer appointed Martinez as a district court judge in Colorado ...
Continuing legal education (CLE), also known as mandatory or minimum continuing legal education (MCLE) or, in some jurisdictions outside the United States, as continuing professional development, consists of professional education for attorneys that takes place after their initial admission to the bar.