Legal Review Committee Agenda and Packet 2020 03 09

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Page 2 of 7 9. Indicate your present employment (list professional partners or associates, if any, and include dates). If you currently practice law, describe the nature of your present law practice, listing the major types of law you practice and the percentage each constitutes of your total practice. Managing Shareholder and Attorney, Dietze and Davis, P.C. Please see attached letterhead for a list of my colleagues. My practice consists mainly of serving as Presiding Judge in 4 municipalities, and Interim Presiding Judge in the City of Louisville, all of which comprises approximately 60 percent of my time. Since I serve as a judge and am subject to appeal in 3 counties, the remaining portion of my practice does not include litigation in state courts, rather 30 percent is estate planning, and the remainder is entity formation and real estate. 10. If you have focused on any specific area of law listed in number 9, what is it? My background in municipal law, including 5 years as general counsel and 13 years as a prosecutor, led me to focus on municipal judicial services. Specifically, I focus on providing exemplary services to municipalities as a municipal court judge. To accomplish this, I have been active in the Colorado Municipal Judges Association and currently serve as its Vice President and Education Chair. I coordinated and moderated CMJA’s Fall Conference and planned the 2020 Spring Conference. I attend monthly CMJA planning and educational meetings and have met with community stakeholders such as Boulder County Restorative Justice, Estes Valley Restorative Justice Partnership and the University of Colorado Restorative Justice and Basics Alcohol program coordinators. I also attended various meetings of Boulder County municipal judges and led an interdisciplinary meeting between judges and Boulder County’s corrections officials. 11. Have you practiced in the trial courts of Colorado within the past five years? If so, please state what percentage of your total practice was comprised by trial practice and the types of matters you handled. Since I serve as a judge in municipalities in Boulder, Larimer and Weld Counties, I take the position that I should not engage in litigation in district courts of those jurisdictions due to the fact that I am subject to appellate review. Therefore, the majority of my trial practice over the past 5 years has been in courts over which I preside as judge. I have conducted thousands of arraignments, motions hearings, and trials of ordinance violations, criminal and traffic matters. My trial practice as a judge comprises 60 percent of my professional time. 12. Summarize your experience presiding over or serving as an advocate in adversary proceedings before administrative boards or commissions. I spent 6 years as a criminal defense and family law attorney, 13 years as a municipal prosecutor, and nearly 6 years as a municipal court judge. My defense experience was in the Denver Drug Court, where my firm was appointed in conflict cases. I also took private cases in municipal courts throughout the Front Range. After moving to Dietze and Davis, P.C., I appeared in county and district courts in the areas of civil litigation and F.E.D. In addition, I spent 13 years as municipal prosecutor, both in Superior and as a backup prosecutor in Louisville. I have a broad range of experience on both sides of municipal court and in litigation in general. Since 2014, I have served as a municipal judge, presiding in Superior, as a deputy in Louisville, and since 2018, as Presiding Judge in 3 additional municipalities. Currently, my courts meet on a schedule which allows me ample time for each of them, and I have flexibility to schedule additional dockets as necessary.