The Fourth Judicial District Nominating Commission will meet Aug. 13, 2019, at the ElPaso County Judicial Building to interview and select nominees for appointment by the governor to the office of county judge for El Paso County. The vacancy will be created by the appointment to the District Court bench of the Hon. Jessica Curtis. The vacancy became effective July 16, 2019.

To be eligible, the applicant must be a qualified elector of El Paso County at the time of investiture and must have been admitted to the practice of law in Colorado. The current annual salary for this position is $165,795. The initial term of office of a county judge is a provisional term of two years; thereafter, the incumbent county judge, if approved by the voters, has a term of four years.

The completed application must be e-mailed to the address listed in the instructions below no later than 4 p.m. Aug. 5, 2019. 

Applications also are on the court’s home page at http://www.courts.state.co.us/Careers/Judge.cfm