Judges’ Corner Seven Questions
| Publication year | 2023 |
| Pages | 08 |
DEPARTMENT | JUDGES’ CORNER
Seven Questions
BY MARIA E. BERKENKOTTER
This month’s Seven Questions series features interviews with Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Christina Gomez, Boulder District Court Judge Dea Lindsey, and Pitkin County Court Judge Ashley Andrews. I am grateful to these and all of the other interviewees to date for their willingness to share something of themselves with you—their journeys, their experiences, their challenges, and a few of the insights they gained along the way.
Christina Finzel Gomez
Christina Gomez is a graduate of Millsaps College and Harvard Law School. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Charles A. Pannell Jr. of the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Following her clerkship, Judge Gomez joined Holland & Hart’s Denver office, where she spent hundreds of hours on a variety of pro bono matters. After her 15 years at the firm, where she ultimately became administrative partner for the Denver office and chaired the appellate practice group, she was appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals in 2019 and assumed the bench in early 2020. Judge Gomez served on the committee that helped form the CBA Appellate Pro Bono Program and helped form the committee that created the CBA Civil Appeals Clinic. She volunteers with Meals on Wheels, the Capitol Hill Community Services Soup Kitchen, the Boy Scouts of America, and the Girl Scouts of America. Judge Gomez enjoys camping, hiking, and playing board games with her husband and three children.
What feature of your job are you most excited about when you wake up in the morning
I love all of it. I love the challenge of keeping up with the pace. I love researching, analyzing, and figuring out complicated legal questions—and we get a lot of those. I love working with my colleagues, my law clerks, and other staff at the court. And I love working toward justice, trying to find the "right" answer to the questions that come before us, and trying to make sure people feel they've been heard.
Advice to young lawyers you wish someone had told you:
There's so much pressure on young lawyers to know exactly what area they want to practice in and what their long-term career goals are, even before they get out of law school. But most of our careers are more fluid, and you don't have to know early on exactly where you're headed decades from now. You can...
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