Judge William Young Furse
Judge · Montezuma County, Colorado · 865 North Park Street Suite 100, Cortez, CO 81321
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Judge Furse graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He worked as a Deputy State Public Defender for the 22nd and 6th Judicial Districts, in private practice focused on criminal defense, and as a contract public defender for the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. He served two terms as the elected District Attorney for the 22nd Judicial District and then as an Assistant District Attorney. He briefly returned to private practice before becoming a judge in 2023.
He hears criminal, civil, probate, domestic relations and juvenile cases, and appeals from the county court.
State evaluation (Colorado Commission on Judicial Performance): 2026: meets performance standards (vote 9-0).
State survey for the 2026 evaluation (run by Market Decisions Research): 10 of 111 attorneys invited by email answered; 2 of 205 non-attorneys invited by email answered; the judicial district has 28,175 residents (2020 Census). State survey report.
Colorado Court of Appeals decisions on this judge’s rulings announced since June 2023: 8 (6 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, reversed in part, 1 reversed).