Marika Frady

Marika Frady was appointed to the El Paso County Court in July 2024. Her docket is 90 percent criminal and 10 percent civil: misdemeanors, traffic violations and petty offenses on the criminal side, and mainly breach of contract, landlord and tenant disputes and evictions on the civil side.

Before her appointment she ran a solo legal practice for 11 years, specializing in dependency and neglect defense in El Paso and Teller counties, and before that she spent six years as a prosecutor. She graduated from the University of Missouri in 2001 and received her law degree from the University of Colorado in 2004, where she was president of the National Asian Pacific American Law Student Association.

The Fourth Judicial District Judicial Performance Commission voted 10 to 0 that she meets performance standards. The commission writes that information from all sources "consistently described her as a good judge who is learning fast, working hard, and making a positive contribution to the County Court."

The commission reports that her "hard work and focus on an efficient, but fair, process caused her division's caseload to drop from 850 to 450 cases on average." It writes that "Her opinions are clear and well written." Of 660 survey invitations sent to attorneys and non-attorneys, 11 were completed. The commission writes that "The extremely low response rate makes the results statistically invalid" and reports an overall score of 3.7 out of 4.0.