Judge Allison P. Ernst

Judge · Pueblo County, Colorado · 501 N. Elizabeth Street, Pueblo, CO 81003

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Judge Ernst earned both her undergraduate and law degrees at Michigan State University. Right after law school she held an Equal Justice Works Fellowship with the university's Low Income Taxpayer Clinic. She then moved to Colorado, where the Colorado State Public Defender's Office hired her in 2005. She worked as a public defender until 2011 and then went into private practice until she became a judge.

Governor John Hickenlooper appointed her in December 2016 as a District Judge in the 10th Judicial District. She hears criminal cases and runs the Competency Court Docket in Pueblo County.

Appointed by Governor Hickenlooper in 2016.

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• Victim · October 16, 2026 · overall 1 out of 5 · reviewed by a moderator

  My 19 year-old son was killed by a 14 year-old boy my 19-year-old son was not the intended target judge Ernst denied the motion to have the juvenile tried as an adult so there will be no justice for my son because the judge sold my son out for her friends the defense attorneys who are her former law, practice partners and friends

State evaluation (Colorado Commission on Judicial Performance): 2026: meets performance standards (vote 8-2); 2020: meets performance standards. On the bench since 2016.

State survey for the 2026 evaluation (run by Market Decisions Research): 4 of 110 attorneys invited by email answered; 0 of 142 non-attorneys invited by email answered; the judicial district has 168,162 residents (2020 Census). State survey report.

Colorado Court of Appeals decisions on this judge’s rulings announced since June 2023: 8 (5 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, reversed in part, 1 reversed, 1 vacated).

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