James C. Klein (Colorado)

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James C. Klein

Prior offices

Colorado 20th Judicial District

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James C. Klein was a judge for the Colorado 20th Judicial District Court. He was appointed to this position in August of 2005. Klein resigned from the court on June 30, 2012.

Education

Klein received his B.A. degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1979. He also completed two years of work towards his Master's degree in Public Policy Analysis there. These studies were interrupted, however, in 1974 by acceptance into the University of Denver College of Law, where he earned his J.D. degree in 1987.

Career

Klein began his career in 1988 as a private practice lawyer in Denver, Colorado. He then became an Assistant Attorney General in July of 1991, specializing in workers' compensation and unemployment insurance related cases. In 1994, he became a Prehearing Administrative Law Judge in the Dispute Resolution Unit of the Colorado Dept. of Labor and Employment - Division of Workers' Compensation. He held this position until September of 2002, when he became an Administrative Law Judge in the Workers' Compensation Unit of the Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration. He was then appointed District Judge in 2005 where he served until 2012.

External links

• 20th Judicial District Homepage (dead link)

Footnotes

Colorado courts

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Federal courts:

Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of Colorado • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of Colorado

State courts:

Colorado Supreme Court • Colorado Court of Appeals • Colorado District Courts • Colorado County Courts • Denver Probate Court • Denver Juvenile Court • Colorado Municipal Courts • Colorado Water Courts

State resources:

Courts in Colorado • Colorado judicial elections • Judicial selection in Colorado