The Sixth Judicial District Nominating Commission will meet at the La Plata County Courthouse in Durango on December 20 to interview and select nominees for appointment by the governor to the office of district judge for the Sixth Judicial District (Archuleta, La Plata and San Juan counties).
The vacancy will be created by the resignation of the Hon. Todd P. Norvell. The vacancy will occur on January 14, 2023.
To be eligible, the applicant must be a qualified elector of the Sixth Judicial District at the time of investiture and must have been admitted to the practice of law in Colorado for five years.
The current annual salary for this position is $183,816. The initial term of office of a district judge is a provisional term of two years; thereafter, the incumbent district judge, if approved by the voters, has a term of six years.
Application forms are available from the office of the ex officio chair of the nominating commission, Justice Melissa Hart, 2 E. 14th Ave., Denver, CO 80203; and the office of the court executive, Eric Hogue, 1060 E. 2nd Ave., Durango, CO 81301.
Applications also are available on the court’s home page at http://www.courts.state.co.us/Careers/Judge.cfm. Applicants must use the application form that was updated in October.
The completed application must be emailed to the address listed in the instructions below no later than 4pm on December 2. Late applications will not be considered.
Any person wishing to suggest a candidate to fill the vacancy may do so by letter to be submitted to any member of the nominating commission, with a copy to the ex officio chair, no later than 4pm on November 25. Under the rules of the 6th Judicial District Judicial Nominating Commission, names of the applicants shall be made public once the application period is closed.
The members of the nominating commission for the Sixth Judicial District are: Albert Northrop, of Pagosa Springs; John Wright, of Silverton; and Kathryn Steelman, Ingrid Alt, Barrie King, James Cross, and Paul DeBell, all of Durango.
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