Judge Dana Nichols
Judge · Weld County, Colorado · 901 9th Ave Greeley, CO 80631
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Judge Nichols earned her undergraduate degree in biological sciences from Colorado State University and her law degree from the University of Colorado School of Law. She served as a deputy public defender for nearly 10 years in the Greeley, Pueblo and Colorado Springs trial offices and the appellate division. She also spent three years in private civil practice in Denver with the firm Kennedy & Christopher, P.C.
She was appointed to the Weld County Court bench in 2007. She is assigned to Division 9, which hears all types of County Court cases and the Competency Court docket.
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State evaluation (Colorado Commission on Judicial Performance): 2026: meets performance standards (vote 8-0); 2022: meets performance standards; 2018: meets performance standards. On the bench since 2007.
State survey for the 2026 evaluation (run by Market Decisions Research): 9 of 345 attorneys invited by email answered; 6 of 691 non-attorneys invited by email answered; the judicial district has 328,981 residents (2020 Census). State survey report.
We searched the Colorado Court of Appeals’ weekly announcements from June 1, 2023 to October 22, 2026 and found no decisions on this judge’s rulings. This is not a grade: only appealed rulings appear in those announcements, and a judge with few appealable rulings, or one appointed recently, will often have none.