The Denver City Council on Monday finalized names for the new Justice Center complex.
The council approved naming the plaza after former Denver District Attorney Dale Tooley. Also, a fundraiser will be held April 1 in Tooley’s honor at the Phipps Mansion at 5:30 p.m. for cancer research carried on at the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, part of the University of Denver. Any person wishing to attend can call 303-388-6965.
The council named the courthouse after former Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, who pioneered a stand – alone juvenile court system, and James Flanigan, Denver’s first black district judge.
The council named the detention facility after a former director of corrections, John Simonet, and Philip Van Cise, who prosecuted mobsters and the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. It named the jury room in the courthouse after Roger Cisneros, a retired district judge.
