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9. Indicate your present employment (list professional partners or associates, if any, and <br />include dates). If you currently practice law, describe the nature of your present law practice, <br />listing the major types of law you practice and the percentage each constitutes of your total <br />practice. <br />I am currently employed as a Relief Judge for the Cities of Arvada, Lakewood, and <br />Westminster. I serve under the supervision and direction of the presiding judges in those <br />jurisdictions: Judge David Cooke (Arvada), Judge Anne Stavig (Lakewood), and Judge <br />John Stipech (Westminster). I also practice criminal defense law in Boulder, Colorado with <br />Zachary Malkinson, Malkinson Wheeler Law, LLP. The nature of our practice is both private <br />and indigent (appointed by the State) criminal defense (94%), administrative hearings <br />in front of the Department of Revenue, Division of Motor Vehicle concerning driver's license <br />privileges (3%), civil file sealings involving the filing for and obtaining orders to seal records <br />(2%), and small claims and evictions (1%). <br />10. If you have focused on any specific area of law listed in number 9, what is it? <br />Municipal Law as a relief judge and Criminal Defense as a lawyer. <br />11. Have you practiced in the trial courts of Colorado within the past five years? If so, please <br />state what percentage of your total practice your trial practice constituted and the types of <br />matters handled. <br />Yes, 96% of my sixteen year practice as a lawyer is trial practice. My trial practice <br />includes drafting and filing motions, litigating motions at court hearings, and representing <br />defendants at trial. In August of 2015, my co -counsel and 1 tried a murder case in Denver <br />and obtained a not guilty verdict for our client. Over the course of my career as a trial <br />lawyer, I have been counsel for four defendants charged with first degree murder. One case <br />resulted in a mistrial so it was tried twice. I have taken cases to trial for clients who are <br />charged with municipal offenses such as assault and harassment, misdemeanor offenses <br />such as menacing, hit and run, DUI, domestic violence related offenses, and felony offenses <br />such as robbery, possession of a dangerous weapon, and aggravated motor vehicle theft. <br />12. Summarize your experience presiding over or serving as an advocate in adversary <br />proceedings before administrative boards or commissions. <br />I do not have specific experience appearing before administrative boards or <br />commissions. I do have experience appearing before hearing officers and serving as an <br />advocate for clients in administrative hearings such as hearings concerning the privilege to <br />drive in front of the Colorado Department of Revenue, Division of Motor Vehicles. 1 have <br />also handled an appeal to the Colorado Wildlife Commission concerning my client's right to <br />a hunting license. <br />13. List your prior professional or business employment since completion of your formal <br />education (include dates). <br />Attorney of Record and Computer Litigation Support, United States v. Timothy McVeigh, <br />August 1996 - July 1997 <br />Investigator, David Williams Investigations, August 1997 — November 1998 <br />Deputy State Public Defender, Office of the Colorado State Public Defender, Denver and <br />Boulder Offices, November 1998 - April 2001 <br />Page 2 of 6 <br />