Colleen Clark

Colleen Clark was appointed to the bench in October 2016. She now hears a criminal county court docket in Arapahoe County, after a period on a mostly civil and small claims docket in Littleton. Voters retained her in 2022 with 69.89 percent of the votes cast on the question: 141,071 yes and 60,785 no.

Before her appointment she was a magistrate and a municipal court judge. Earlier she was a prosecutor in jurisdictions across the state, specializing in crimes against persons, mostly children. She serves on the Colorado Supreme Court Task Force on Wellbeing and the Senior Judge Standing Committee and served two terms on the board of the Colorado Women's Bar Association. She holds a political science degree from the University of Rochester and a law degree from Boston University.

The Eighteenth Judicial District Commission on Judicial Performance voted 7 to 1 that she meets performance standards, with one member absent and one vacancy on the commission. The commission writes that survey respondents, "although low in numbers, found mixed issues in some areas." It found the survey results "consistent with" past evaluations.

The commission reports that she "was described as fair, calm, punctual, and courteous." Some respondents, it writes, "expressed concerns that Judge Clark can be at times slow to make rulings, appears to be visibly frustrated at times, and has opportunity to grow with how she engages with pro se litigants." The commission "concluded Judge Clark’s legal knowledge base is stable."