Colorado water watchers are interested in Governor Ritter’s nominees because the Colorado Supreme Court is the court of appeals for cases from water court. Here’s a report from Patrick Malone writing in The Pueblo Chieftain. From the article:
They are Colorado Deputy Attorney General Monica Marquez of Denver, District Judge David Prince of Colorado Springs and Colorado Appeals Court Judge Robert Russel of Denver.
Marquez is the deputy attorney general in charge of the state services section. She was hired by the attorney general’s office in 2002. Marquez graduated from Yale Law School, served as a clerk for 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge David Ebel and U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor in Massachusetts. She practiced law as an associate in the firm of Holme Roberts and Owen. Marquez is past president of the Colorado Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Bar Association and a board member of the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association. Her father, former Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Jose D.L. Marquez, was the first person of Hispanic descent to serve on that bench.
Prince was appointed to Colorado’s 4th Judicial District as a judge in April 2006. Before that, he was a commercial litigator with the firm of Holland & Hart. He practiced primarily fiduciary, finance, construction, business, real estate and intellectual property law. He graduated from the University of Utah Law School.
Russel attended law school at the University of Colorado. Before being appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals, he worked at the Colorado Attorney General’s office and worked as chief of the appellate division of the U.S. Attorney’s office. During the late 1970s and through much of the 1980s, he taught music and English at Kent Denver. His undergraduate degree from the University of Northern Colorado is in music.