Judge Nicholas Catanzarite
Judge · Grand County, Colorado · 307 Moffat Avenue, Hot Sulphur Springs, CO 80451
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Judge Catanzarite earned his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and his law degree from the University of Denver in 2011. He practiced law in Grand County for three years, focusing on criminal defense, real estate and family law.
He was appointed to Grand County Court in 2015. He handles a combined docket of traffic cases, civil disputes including small claims, and criminal and misdemeanor cases.
State evaluation (Colorado Commission on Judicial Performance): 2026: meets performance standards (vote 7-0); 2022: meets performance standards (vote 7-0); 2018: meets performance standards. On the bench since 2015.
State survey for the 2026 evaluation (run by Market Decisions Research): 2 of 119 attorneys invited by email answered; 7 of 346 non-attorneys invited by email answered; the judicial district has 53,838 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.