Chief Judge Hiatt retiring from 8th Judicial District bench

Commission sets date to select nominees

The Eighth Judicial District Nominating Commission will meet

Wednesday, July 15, 2009, at the Larimer County Justice Center to interview and
select nominees for appointment by the governor to the office of district judge
for the Eighth Judicial District (Jackson and Larimer counties). The vacancy will
be created by the retirement of the Honorable James H. Hiatt, chief judge of the
district. The vacancy will occur on July 31, 2009.

To be eligible for appointment to fill the vacancy, the applicant

must be a qualified elector of the Eighth Judicial District and must have been
admitted to the practice of law in Colorado for five years. The current annual
salary for this position is $128,598. The initial term of office of a district
judge is a provisional term of two years; thereafter, the incumbent district
judge, if approved by the voters, has a term of six years.

Application forms are available from the office of the ex officio

chair of the nominating commission, Justice Michael L. Bender, 2 East 14th Ave.,
Denver, Colo. 80203; and the office of the district administrator, Scott Courtney,
Larimer County Justice Center, 201 La Porte Ave., Suite 100, Fort Collins, CO
80521, phone 970-498-6260. Applications also are available on the court’s home
page at http://www.courts.state.co.us/Careers/Judge.cfm; at the Jackson County
Courthouse, 396 Lafever St., Walden, CO 80480; and at the Loveland Police and
Courts Building, 810 E. 10th St., Suite 110, Loveland, CO 80537.

The original and seven copies of the application must be filed

with the ex officio chair no later than 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Late
applications will not be considered. Any person wishing to suggest a candidate to
fill the vacancy may do so by letter to be submitted to any member of the
nominating commission, with a copy to the ex officio chair, no later than 5 p.m.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009.

Applications will be kept confidential, except that the nominating commission

shall disclose the names, work addresses, and work telephone numbers of those
nominees submitted to the governor.

The members of the nominating commission for the Eighth Judicial District are:
Celeste Holder Kling, Tammie Niemann, Walta Ruff, Robert W. Schaffer and Bryan S.
VanMeveren, all of Fort Collins; Keith H. Holsinger of Walden; and Esther Girard
of Cowdrey.

Editor’s Note: Contact information for the nominating commission members.

Esther Girard, P.O. Box 145, Cowdrey, CO 80434

Robert W. Schaffer, 5027 Alder Ct., Ft. Collins, CO 80525
Celeste Holder Kling, 412 S. Howes, Suite B, Ft. Collins, CO 80521
Tammie Niemann, 125 S. Howes St., Suite 900, Ft. Collins, CO 80521
Walta Ruff, 1015 West Mountain Ave., Ft. Collins, CO 80521
Keith H. Holsinger, P.O. Box 37, Walden, CO 80480
Bryan S. VanMeveren, 4045 St. Cloud Dr., Suite 100, Loveland, CO 80538