• Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

  Judge

  2017 – present · 9 yrsAppointed by Donald John Trump

• Supreme Court of Colorado

  Judge

  2006 – present · 20 yrs

Career

• adjunct professor

  2011 – 2015 · 4 yrs

• University of Colorado School of Law

  2011 – 2015 · 4 yrs

• Visiting judicial teaching fellow

  J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University

  2010 – present · 16 yrs

• adjunct professor

  2007 – 2009 · 2 yrs

• Adjunct professor, Suffolk University Law School Summer Law Program

  Lund, Sweden

  2007 – present · 19 yrs

• Justice

  Colorado Supreme Court

  2006 – 2017 · 11 yrs

• Solicitor general

  State of Colorado

  2005 – 2006 · 1 yr

• University of Colorado School of Law

  1998 – 2009 · 11 yrs

• associate professor

  1998 – 2006 · 8 yrs

• Private practice

  1994 – 1998 · 4 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of the United States

  1993 – 1994 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1992 – 1993 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1991 – present · 35 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Jerry E. Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

  1991 – 1992 · 1 yr

Education