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Chief justice, Hispanic attorneys speak about Latino influence in legal profession

Oct 12, 2024

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Michael Karlik

Colorado’s first Latina chief justice and other prominent Hispanic attorneys gathered in the Colorado Supreme Court’s courtroom on Thursday for a discussion about heritage, mentorship and lagging representation in the legal profession. “Have you ever felt pressure to conform,” asked Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez, “or, to be super blunt, to ‘tone down the brown?’” “I think…
Kathryn Starnella, who ‘never does anything halfway,’ ceremonially sworn in as federal judge

Oct 16, 2023

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Michael Karlik

Before Kathryn A. Starnella moved to Colorado more than a decade ago to clerk for a federal judge, she prepared for the job by volunteering at the federal court in Chicago. Then when Colorado’s U.S. District Court announced last year that she would be joining the bench as a magistrate judge, Starnella spent her free…
Colorado Common Cause names Amanda Gonzalez executive director

Jan 27, 2018

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Common Cause said Friday that Amanda Gonzalez will take over as the government-reform nonprofit’s executive director on Feb. 1. She replaces longtime executive director Elena Nunez, who is going to work for national Common Cause as director of state operations and ballot measure strategies. Nunez said the state organization’s campaigns will be in good hands…
Though future is uncertain, Denver will aid DACA recipients with renewal

Sep 29, 2017

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Adam McCoy, special to Colorado Politics

Denver hasn’t been shy about its resistance to the White House’s bellicose stance on immigration – i.e. a travel ban; President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities, and the promise to end a program, unless Congress acts, that provides protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. In…

colorado hispanic bar association

Chief justice, Hispanic attorneys speak about Latino influence in legal profession

Kathryn Starnella, who ‘never does anything halfway,’ ceremonially sworn in as federal judge

Colorado Common Cause names Amanda Gonzalez executive director

Though future is uncertain, Denver will aid DACA recipients with renewal