13th Judicial District announces District Court vacancy

The Thirteenth Judicial District Nominating Commission will meet July 30 at the Morgan County Justice Center, 400 Warner St., Fort Morgan, CO 80701 to interview and select nominees for appointment by the governor to the office of district judge for the Thirteenth Judicial District (Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and Yuma counties). The vacancy will be created by the retirement of the Honorable Charles M. Hobbs. The vacancy will occur on Oct. 2.

To be eligible, the applicant must be a qualified elector of the Thirteenth 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 $193,008. The initial term of office of a district judge is a provisional term of two years; thereafter, the incumbent district judge, if retained 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 Monica Marquez, 2 E. 14th Ave., Denver, CO 80203; and the office of the court executive, Douglas Short, 110 N Riverview Rd. Rm 200, Sterling, CO 80751. Applications also are available on the court’s home page at http://www.courts.state.co.us/Careers/Judge.cfm

The completed application must be e-mailed to the address listed in the instructions below no later than July 12 at 4 p.m. 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 July 5 at 4 p.m.

The members of the nominating commission for the Thirteenth Judicial District are: Curtis Fix of Wray; Kelly Lowery of Sterling; Anna Scott of Julesburg; Raymond Laws of Fort Morgan; Katherine Marie Stolz of Burlington; Jordan Willeke of Otis; and Jerold Brandt of Holyoke.

Editor’s Note: Contact information for the nominating commission members:

• Curtis Fix, [email protected];

• Kelly Lowery, [email protected];

• Anna Scott, [email protected];

• Raymond Laws, [email protected];

• Katherine Marie Stolz, [email protected];

• Jordan Willeke, [email protected];

• Jerold Brandt, [email protected].