Judge Katharine "Jenny" Ellison

Judge · Larimer County, Colorado · 1600 Prospect Park Way Suite 109, Fort Collins, CO 80525

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Judge Ellison received her bachelor's degree from Colorado College in 1999 and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2004. She practiced civil litigation as a trial attorney at VanMeveren Law Group. She also served in the District Attorney's Office in the Eighth Judicial District from 2004 to 2018, where her work focused mainly on appeals and juvenile law.

Governor Jared Polis appointed her to the Eighth Judicial County Court bench on February 27, 2020.

Appointed by Governor Jared Polis in 2020.

State evaluation (Colorado Commission on Judicial Performance): 2026: meets performance standards (vote 8-0); 2022: meets performance standards (vote 10-0). On the bench since 2020.

State survey for the 2026 evaluation (run by Market Decisions Research): 9 of 240 attorneys invited by email answered; 6 of 740 non-attorneys invited by email answered; the judicial district has 360,445 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.

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