Judge William J. Culver
Judge · Otero County, Colorado · 13 West Third St. Room 207, La Junta, CO 81050
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Judge Culver graduated from Fort Hays State University in 1992 with a bachelor's degree and from Emory University School of Law in 1995. Before 2012 he was a solo practitioner who focused on complex divorce proceedings and criminal defense. Before becoming a judge he was the elected district attorney for the 16th Judicial District.
He has been a County Court judge since his appointment in 2024. He presides over civil, criminal advisement, misdemeanor, traffic and small claims cases in Otero County.
State evaluation (Colorado Commission on Judicial Performance): 2026: meets performance standards (vote 8-0). On the bench since 2024.
State survey for the 2026 evaluation (run by Market Decisions Research): 6 of 103 attorneys invited by email answered; 6 of 301 non-attorneys invited by email answered; the judicial district has 30,262 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.