Linda Billings-Vela

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Linda Billings-Vela

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Colorado 4th Judicial District
Tenure
Present officeholder
Term ends

2031

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 5, 2024

Education

Bachelor's

Colorado College

Law

University of Denver Law School

Linda Billings-Vela is a judge of the Colorado 4th Judicial District. Her current term ends on January 14, 2031.

Billings-Vela ran for re-election for judge of the Colorado 4th Judicial District. She won in the retention election on November 5, 2024.

She was appointed to the district court by Governor John Hickenlooper effective July 1, 2015.

Education

Billings-Vela received her undergraduate degree from Colorado College and her J.D. from the University of Denver School of Law.[1]

Career

Prior to her judicial appointment, Bellings-Vela worked for the Fourth Judicial District Attorney's Office from 1995 to 1997, and again from 2001 to 2009. Between that service, she was an attorney with Anderson, Dude & Lebel, P.C.[1]

Elections

2024

See also:  Municipal elections in El Paso County, Colorado (2024)

Colorado 4th Judicial District

Linda Billings-Vela was retained to the Colorado 4th Judicial District on November 5, 2024 with 61.0% of the vote.

Retention
 Vote
%
Votes
Yes
 
61.0
 
185,544
No
 
39.0
 
118,436
Total Votes
303,980


Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Billings-Vela in this election.

2018

See also: Municipal elections in El Paso County, Colorado (2018)

Colorado 4th Judicial District, Linda Billings-Vela's seat

Linda Billings-Vela was retained to the Colorado 4th Judicial District on November 6, 2018 with 75.0% of the vote.

Retention
 Vote
%
Votes
Yes
 
75.0
 
179,673
No
 
25.0
 
59,749
Total Votes
239,422

2014

Billings-Vela was retained to the Teller County Court, Colorado with 72.2 percent of the vote on November 4, 2014. [2]

Judicial performance evaluation

The Colorado Commissions on Judicial Performance recommended that Judge Billings-Vela be Retained. The full report is available here.


Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named pr
  2. Colorado Secretary of State, "2014 General Election Unofficial Candidate List," accessed September 5, 2014