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'''Chris Zenisek''' is a judge on the [[Colorado 1st Judicial District|First Judicial District]] in [[Colorado]]. He was appointed by Governor [[Judges appointed by John Hickenlooper|John Hickenlooper]] in December 2011 and was [[retention election|retained]] by voters in 2014.<ref name=appoint>[http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_19585463 ''DailyCamera.com'', "Boulder prosecutor Chris Zenisek selected for Jefferson County judgeship," December 20, 2011]</ref><ref name=pr>[http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=GovHickenlooper%2FCBONLayout&cid=1251611252245&pagename=CBONWrapper ''Office of the Colorado Governor'', "Press Release: Gov. Hickenlooper appoints new District Court judge for Jefferson and Gilpin counties," December 21, 2011]</ref>{{Resultsref2014|State=Colorado}}  His six-year term {{Greener|start=1/11/2021 9:00pm CST|before=is set to expire|after=was set to expire}} on January 11, 2021.<ref name=selectionpage>[http://judicialselection.us/judicial_selection/methods/selection_of_judges.cfm?state=CO ''National Center for State Courts'', "Methods of Judicial Selection: Colorado," accessed July 13, 2015]</ref>
'''Chris Zenisek''' is a judge on the [[Colorado 1st Judicial District|First Judicial District]] in [[Colorado]]. He was appointed by Governor [[Judges appointed by John Hickenlooper|John Hickenlooper]] in December 2011 and was [[retention election|retained]] by voters in 2014.<ref name=appoint>[http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_19585463 ''DailyCamera.com'', "Boulder prosecutor Chris Zenisek selected for Jefferson County judgeship," December 20, 2011]</ref><ref name=pr>[http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=GovHickenlooper%2FCBONLayout&cid=1251611252245&pagename=CBONWrapper ''Office of the Colorado Governor'', "Press Release: Gov. Hickenlooper appoints new District Court judge for Jefferson and Gilpin counties," December 21, 2011]</ref>{{Resultsref2014|State=Colorado}}  His six-year term {{Greener|start=1/11/2021 9:00pm CST|before=is set to expire|after=was set to expire}} on January 11, 2021.<ref name=selectionpage>[http://judicialselection.us/judicial_selection/methods/selection_of_judges.cfm?state=CO ''National Center for State Courts'', "Methods of Judicial Selection: Colorado," accessed July 13, 2015]</ref>

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Chris Zenisek
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Colorado 1st Judicial District
Tenure
Present officeholder

Education
Bachelor's
University of Colorado
Law
University of Denver


Chris Zenisek is a judge on the First Judicial District in Colorado. He was appointed by Governor John Hickenlooper in December 2011 and was retained by voters in 2014.[1][2]  His six-year term was set to expire on January 11, 2021.[3]

Elections

2014

Zenisek was retained to the First Judicial District with 67.6 percent of the vote on November 4, 2014. [4] 

Judicial performance evaluation

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

Education

Zenisek received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado and his J.D. from the University of Denver.[2]

Career

From 2009 until his judicial appointment in 2011, Zenisek was an assistant district attorney for the 20th Judicial District in Boulder County. Prior to that, he worked with the firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Shreck, P.C.[2][1]

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