Re: Oct. 28 guest commentary.
As chair of the Colorado Judicial Institute — a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the judicial merit selection system adopted by Colorado’s voters 50 years ago — I write in opposition to Matt Arnold’s guest commentary.
Arnold is dead wrong about how Colorado evaluates judges.
Colorado has a judicial performance system that provides substantive evaluations to assist voters in retaining judges. Those evaluations include opinions of those observing and affected by judges’ rulings — such as litigants, lawyers, jurors, law enforcement officials, and crime victims. More than 200 non-lawyers and lawyers who volunteer to serve on judicial performance commissions — independents, Republicans and Democrats — review those opinions and case statistics, conduct courtroom observations, and interview and critique the judges. Voters can review the results in the Blue Book, at , and .
Mark Clouatre, Denver
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