2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 13 - Courts and Court Procedure
Courts of Record
Article 5.5 - Commissions on Judicial Performance
§ 13-5.5-104. District commission on judicial performance

(1) (a) (I) (A) There is hereby established in each judicial district a district commission on judicial performance, referred to in this article as the "district commission". The district commission shall consist of ten members. The speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate shall each appoint one attorney and one nonattorney. The governor and the chief justice of the supreme court shall each appoint one attorney and two nonattorneys.

(B) For purposes of this subsection (1), "attorney" means a person admitted to practice law before the courts of this state.

(II) All members of the district commission shall serve terms of four years. The term of each member of a district commission shall expire on November 30 of an odd-numbered year, and the term of any member appointed to replace a member at the end of the member's term shall commence on December 1 of the year when the previous member's term expires.

(III) The appointing authority may remove members of the district commissions for cause.

(b) (I) Any vacancy on the district commission shall be filled by the original appointing authority, but a member shall not serve more than two full terms plus any balance remaining on an unexpired term if the initial appointment was to fill a vacancy. Within five days after a vacancy arises on a district commission, the district commission shall notify the appointing authority and the state commission of the vacancy, and the appointing authority shall make an appointment within forty-five days after the date of the vacancy. If the original appointing authority fails to make the appointment within forty-five days after the date of the vacancy, the state commission shall make the appointment.

(II) Justices and judges actively performing judicial duties may not be appointed to serve on the district commission. Former justices and judges are eligible to be appointed as attorney members; except that a former justice or judge may not be assigned or appointed to perform judicial duties while serving on the district commission.

(c) The chair of the district commission shall be elected by its members every two years.

(2) The district administrator of each judicial district and his or her staff shall serve as the staff for the district commission.

(3) Members and employees of a district commission shall be immune from suit in any action, civil or criminal, based upon official acts performed in good faith as members of the district commission.

(4) A member of a district commission shall recuse himself or herself from an evaluation of the person who appointed the member to the commission.