Judge John Briggs
Judge · Weld County, Colorado · 901 9th Ave Greeley, CO 80631
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Judge Briggs was born in New York and grew up in Leonia, New Jersey. He earned a bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy in 1990 and his law degree from Washburn University School of Law in 1993. He worked on the Central Research Staff of the Kansas Court of Appeals (1993 to 1996), was a deputy public defender in Kansas and Colorado (1996 to 2004), and then had a private defense practice in Greeley (2004 to 2010).
He was appointed to the Weld County Court bench in December 2010. He presides over Division 6, which handles misdemeanor, traffic, bond hearings and civil cases.
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 2011.
State survey for the 2026 evaluation (run by Market Decisions Research): 14 of 308 attorneys invited by email answered; 7 of 786 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.