Judge Judith Smith
Judge · Denver County Court, Colorado · 520 W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80204
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Judge Smith earned her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder and a Master of Laws degree from Columbia Law School. She began her career in private practice with a global law firm and clerked for a federal judge in the 10th Circuit Court. She was a Denver deputy district attorney, specializing in juvenile prosecutions.
She then spent 14 years as an assistant United States attorney for the District of Colorado, where she led the special prosecutions section and established the cybercrime and national security section. Mayor Hancock appointed her to the Denver County Court in September 2018.
State evaluation (Colorado Commission on Judicial Performance): 2026: meets performance standards (vote 5-0); 2022: meets performance standards (vote 9-0). On the bench since 2018.
State survey for the 2022 evaluation (run by Market Decisions Research): 8 of 124 attorneys invited by email answered; the judicial district has 715,522 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.