Rebecca Love Kourlis is a former justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.
The Colorado Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Colorado. Located in Denver,the court was established in 1876. It consists of a Chief Justice and six Associate Justices who are appointed by the Governor of Colorado from a list of candidates approved by a state judicial commission. Each justice faces a retention election two years after his or her appointment and every ten years thereafter,with mandatory retirement at age 72.
Timothy Michael Tymkovich is an American lawyer who has served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit since 2003;serving as chief judge from 2015 to 2022. In November 2023,he was designated by Chief Justice John Roberts to serve as a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.
The Government of Denver makes up the public sector of the City and County of Denver,Colorado.
Neil McGill Gorsuch is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31,2017,and has served since April 10,2017.
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,Colorado county courts,Colorado water courts,and municipal courts. The administration of the state judicial system is the responsibility of the Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court as its executive head and is assisted by several other commissions. In Denver,the county and municipal courts are integrated and administratively separate from the state court system.
Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in Colorado since October 7,2014. Colorado's state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage was struck down in state district court on July 9,2014,and by the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado on July 23,2014. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals had already made similar rulings with respect to such bans in Utah on June 25 and Oklahoma on July 18,which are binding precedents on courts in Colorado. On October 6,2014,the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the Tenth Circuit cases,and the Tenth Circuit lifted its stay. On October 7,the Colorado Supreme Court and the Tenth Circuit cleared the way for same-sex marriages to begin in Colorado.
Allison Lynn Hartwell Eid is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She previously served as an associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.
Nancy E. Rice is the former Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.
Nathan B. Coats is an American lawyer and jurist who served as the 46th chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court from 2018 to 2020. Coats had been appointed to the court in 2000,by Governor Bill Owens and served until his retirement in 2020. His views while serving on the court were considered conservative.
Brian Boatright is an American lawyer and judge,who is the chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. He previously served as a judge on the Colorado District Court from 1999 to 2011.
Brinkman v. Long,and its companion case,McDaniel-Miccio v. Hickenlooper,are the lead state court cases on same-sex marriage in Colorado. Here,a Colorado district court found on July 9,2014,that the state's same-sex marriage ban violates same-sex couples' guarantees of equal protection and due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Brinkman and McDaniel-Miccio have been appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court,where they were dismissed following the dismissal of similar petitions by the U.S. Supreme Court on October 6,2014.
Carlos Armando Samour Jr. is an associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court and former chief judge of the Eighteenth Judicial District Court in Colorado. He is known for serving as the judge for the trial of James Eagan Holmes,the convicted perpetrator of the 2012 Aurora,Colorado shooting.
Alex Joseph Martinez is an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Colorado from 1996 to 2011.
Richard L. Gabriel was an American lawyer and judge,who was an associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. He previously served on the Colorado Court of Appeals from 2008 to 2015.
Melissa Hart is a justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.
Jena Marie Griswold is an American attorney and politician from the state of Colorado. A Democrat,she is the 39th Colorado Secretary of State,serving since January 8,2019.
Luther Marcellus Goddard was an associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court from 1891 to 1901 and from 1905 to 1909.
Maria Encarnacion Berkenkotter is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court since 2021.
Veronica Sophia Rossman is a Russian-born American lawyer serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
