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U.S.
Senator Ken Salazar
Member: Finance, Agriculture, Energy, Ethics and Aging Committees
2300 15th
Street, Suite 450 Denver, CO
80202 | 702 Hart Senate Building, Washington, D.C.
20510
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Senator
Salazar Provides White House with Three Judicial Recommendations for
U.S. District Court Vacancies
DENVER, CO – United States
Senator Ken Salazar announced today his recommendations to the White
House to fill the pending vacancies to the U.S. District Court in Colorado.
In January, Senator Salazar convened a bipartisan Judicial Nominations
Advisory Commission to review applications for the vacancies. Based
on those recommendations, Senator Salazar will forward the following
names to President Bush for consideration for nomination to the U.S.
District Court in Colorado:
- Christine Arguello
– Currently Senior Associate Counsel for the University of
Colorado; former partner at Davis, Graham & Stubbs in Denver,
partner at Duncan, Green, Brown & Langeness in Denver; Chief Deputy
at the Colorado Attorney General’s office; Law Professor, University
of Kansas School of Law; visiting professor at the University of Colorado
and University of Denver law schools; and co-author of a law school
casebook on Evidence;
- Gregory Goldberg
- Currently partner at Holland & Hart in Denver; former Assistant
United States Attorney in Denver and Associate Attorney at Arnold
& Porter in Denver;
- Lael Montgomery
– Currently Judge, 20th Judicial District (Boulder); former Boulder
County Judge and Deputy District Attorney, 20th Judicial District
(Boulder).
To read the letter Senator
Salazar sent to the White House, click
here.
“I am proud of the
three individuals I have submitted to the White House to fill the pending
United States District Court vacancies in Colorado,” said Senator Salazar.
“They represent excellence in the Colorado law community with diverse
backgrounds and life experiences that will serve the people of Colorado
well.”
“I also continue
to be very pleased with the thorough and deliberative work of the distinguished
panel of citizens of the bipartisan Judicial Nominations Advisory Commission,
and I thank them for their work,” said
Senator Salazar.
Background:
On Saturday, March 15, Senator
Salazar met with the Commission, which concluded its deliberations and
submitted a short list of recommendations to Senator Salazar for his
consideration. Senator Salazar personally interviewed the recommended
applicants.
Over 45 applications were submitted to the Commission during the two-week
February application submittal period. Commission members interviewed
over 25 applicants.
Senator Salazar established the eight-member, equally balanced bipartisan
commission in January to assist him in gathering a list of recommendations
of nominees to send to the White House to fill the pending vacancy on
the U.S. District Court for Colorado as well as the two known additional
upcoming vacancies.
Senator Salazar’s eight-member
bipartisan commission included:
- Ross Buchanan, co-founder
of the Denver law firm, Buchanan, Jurdem & Cederberg, P.C.;
- Honorable Rebecca Kourlis,
former Colorado Supreme Court Justice and West Slope judge and lawyer
and current head of the University of Denver Institute for the Advancement
of the American Legal System;
- Frances Koncilja, founder
of the law firm Koncilja and Associates and past-President of the
Colorado Bar Association and Pueblo, Colorado native;
- Glen Keller, senior of
counsel in the prestigious Denver law firm of Davis, Graham and Stubbs
and a former United States Bankruptcy Judge and Assistant Colorado
Attorney General;
- Honorable Norma Anderson,
former Colorado State Senator and Majority Leader from Jefferson County,
Colorado;
- Honorable Bill Kaufman,
former Colorado State Representative from Loveland, Colorado;
- Honorable Gloria Tanner,
former Colorado State Senator from Denver, Colorado; and
- Honorable Paul Sandoval,
former Colorado State Senator from Denver, Colorado.
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