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Carlos Lucero
2021 - Present
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Carlos F. Lucero is a federal judge on senior status with the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. He joined the court in 1995 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton.[1]
Lucero assumed senior status on February 1, 2021.[2]
Early life and education
A native of Antonio, Colorado, Lucero earned his bachelor's degree from Adams State College in 1961 and his J.D. from George Washington University Law School in 1964.[1]
Professional career
- 1995 - Present: Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit
- 2021-Present: Senior judge, United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit
- 1995 - 2021: Associate judge, United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit
- 1968-1995: Adjunct professor, Adams State College
- 1966-1995: Private practice, Alamosa, Colo.
- 1964-1965: Law clerk, Hon. William Doyle, United States District Court for the District of Colorado[3]
Judicial career
10th Circuit Court of Appeals
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| Nominee Information |
| Name: Carlos F. Lucero |
| Court: United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit |
| Progress |
| Confirmed 99 days after nomination. |
 Nominated: March 23, 1995
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| ABA Rating: Unanimously Well Qualified
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| Questionnaire: |
| Hearing: June 6, 1995
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| QFRs: (Hover over QFRs to read more) |
| Reported: June 22, 1995
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| Confirmed: June 30, 1995
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| Vote: Voice vote
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Lucero was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit by Bill Clinton on March 23, 1995, to a new seat created by 104 Stat. 5089. The American Bar Association rated Lucero Unanimously Well Qualified for the nomination.[4] Hearings on Lucero's nomination were held before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on June 6, 1995, and his nomination was reported by U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on June 22, 1995. Lucero was confirmed on a voice vote of the U.S. Senate on June 30, 1995, and he received his commission the same day.[1][5]
Lucero assumed senior status on February 1, 2021.[6]
Noteworthy cases
States cannot require citizenship documents to register to vote (2014)
On November 10, 2014, the Tenth Circuit struck down requirements in Kansas and Arizona mandating voting registrants to show citizenship documents when registering to vote. A three-judge panel of the Tenth Circuit, consisting of Judges Carlos Lucero, Jerome Holmes and Gregory Alan Phillips, held that the states lacked the authority to require the federal government to include citizenship documents as a requirement on the voter registration form, which the states argued was required to comply with the states’ own laws. Judge Lucero, writing for the panel, said that the states failed to show that requiring proof of citizenship in any way decreased fraudulent voting.
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External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Federal Judicial Center, "Biographical directory of federal judges," accessed August 16, 2016
- ↑ USCourts.gov, "Future Judicial Vacancies," accessed January 29, 2021
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedFJC Bio - ↑ American Bar Association, "Ratings of Article III judicial nominees, 104th Congress," accessed August 16, 2016
- ↑ United States Congress, "PN 279 - Carlos F. Lucero - The Judiciary," accessed August 16, 2016
- ↑ USCourts.gov, "Future Judicial Vacancies," accessed January 29, 2021
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by: NA-new seat 104 Stat. 5089 |
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals 1995 – 2021 |
Succeeded by: Veronica Rossman
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| 1993 |
Adams • Ambrose • Barnes • Brinkema • Bucklew • Chasanow • Coffman • Daughtrey • Ferguson • Ginsburg • Hagen • Jackson • Lancaster • Leval • Lindsay • Messitte • Michael • Piersol • Saris • Schwartz • Seybert • Shanahan • Shaw • Stearns • Trager • Vazquez • Wilken • Wilson | ||
| 1994 |
Baer • Barkett • Batts • Beaty • Benavides • Bennett • Berrigan • Biery • Block • Borman • Breyer • Briones • Bryson • Bucklo • Burgess • Burrage • Cabranes • Calabresi • Carr • Casellas • Castillo • Chatigny • Chin • Cindrich • Coar • Collins • Cooper • Cote • Currie • Davis • Dominguez • Downes • Duval • Friedman • Furgeson • Garcia • Gertner • Gettleman • Gillmor • Gilmore • Gleeson • Haggerty • Hamilton • Hannah • Hawkins • Henry • Holmes • Hood • Hull • Hurley • Jack • Jones • Jones • Kaplan • Katz • Kern • Kessler • Koeltl • Lisi • Manning • McKee • McLaughlin • Melancon • Miles-LaGrange • Moore • Motz • Murphy • O'Malley • O'Meara • Oliver • Paez • B. Parker • F. Parker • R. Parker • Perry • Ponsor • Pooler • Porteous • Rendell • Riley • Robertson • Rogers • Ross • Russell • Sands • Sarokin • Scheindlin • Silver • Squatrito • Stewart • Sullivan • Tatel • Thompson • Timlin • Urbina • Vanaskie • Vance • Walls • Wells • Williams | ||
| 1995 |
Arterton • Atlas • Black • Blake • Briscoe • Tena Campbell • Todd Campbell • Chesney • Cole • Collier • Daniel • Davis • Dennis • Dlott • Donald • Duffy • Economus • Evans • Fallon • Folsom • Gaughan • Goodwin • Heartfield • Hunt • Illston • Jones • King • Kornmann • Lawson • Lenard • Lucero • Lynch • McKinley • Moody • Moore • Moskowitz • Murphy • Murtha • Nugent • O'Toole • Orlofsky • Pogue • Sessions • C. Smith • O. Smith • Stein • Thornburg • Tunheim • Wallach • Wardlaw • Webber • Whaley • Winmill • Wood | ||
| 1996 |
Broadwater • Clevert • Fenner • Gershon • Gottschall • Greenaway • Hinkle • Jones • Kahn • Laughrey • Lemmon • Marten • Miller • Molloy • Montgomery • Pregerson • Rakoff • Sargus • Tashima • Thomas • Zapata | ||
| 1997 |
Adelman • Bataillon • Breyer • Caputo • Casey • Chambers • Clay • Damrell • Droney • Friedman • Gajarsa • Garland • Gilman • Gold • Gwin • Hall • Hayden • Hull • Ishii • Jenkins • Kauffman • Kennedy • Kimball • Kollar-Kotelly • Lazzara • Marbley • Marcus • Middlebrooks • Miller • Moon • Pratt • Rendell • Sippel • Siragusa • Snyder • Thrash | ||
| 1998 |
Aiken • Barbier • Barzilay • Berman • Buttram • Carter • Collins • Dawson • Dimitrouleas • Fletcher • Fogel • Frank • Graber • Hellerstein • Herndon • James • Johnson • Kane • Kelly • G. King • R. King • Lasnik • Lee • Lemelle • Lindsay • Lipez • Manella • Matz • McCuskey • McKeown • McMahon • Mickle • Mollway • Mordue • Moreno • Morrow • Munley • Murphy • Pallmeyer • Pauley • Polster • Pooler • Rawlinson • Ridgway • R. Roberts • V. Roberts • Sack • Scott • Seitz • Seymour • Shea • Silverman • Sleet • Sotomayor • Steeh • Story • Straub • Tagle • Tarnow • Trauger • Traxler • Tyson • Wardlaw • Whelan • Young | ||
| 1999 |
Alsup • Barry • Brown • Buchwald • Cooper • Eaton • Ellison • Feess • Fisher • Gould • Guzman • Haynes • Hibbler • Hochberg • Hurd • Huvelle • Jordan • Katzmann • Kennelly • Linn • Lorenz • Lynn • Marrero • Murguia • Pannell • Pechman • Pepper • Phillips • Schreier • Stewart • Underhill • Ward • Williams • Wilson | ||
| 2000 |
Ambro • Antoon • Battani • Berzon • Bolton • Brady • Bye • Cavanaugh • Daniels • Darrah • Dawson • Dyk • Fuentes • Garaufis • Garcia-Gregory • Hamilton • Huck • Hunt • Lawson • Lefkow • Lynch • Martin • McLaughlin • Moody • Murguia • Paez • Pisano • Presnell • Rawlinson • Reagan • Schiller • Singal • Steele • Surrick • Swain • Tallman • Teilborg • Tucker • Whittemore | ||
