MONDAY, SEPT. 17, 2007

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GOV. RITTER APPOINTS TWO DENVER JUVENILE COURT JUDGES

Gov. Bill Ritter announced today he has appointed Donna Jean Schmalberger and David Brett Woods as new Denver District Juvenile Court judges.

Schmalberger served as an assistant county attorney for Arapahoe County since 1997, and was a sole practitioner from 1986 to 1997. She earned her bachelor's degree in English from Lafayette College in 1973 and her law degree from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1982.

Woods has served as a relief judge in the Aurora Municipal Court since 2006, and as a magistrate judge in Denver County Court since 2001. Woods also worked for 10 months as magistrate judge in Denver District Juvenile Court. He is a former assistant city attorney in Denver, a former associate at Holme, Roberts & Owen, and from 1990-91, he worked as a law clerk in the 10^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Woods received his bachelor¿s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas in 1982 and his law degree from the University of Denver College of Law in 1990.

The initial term of office for a district judge is a provisional term of approximately two years, and then until the second Tuesday in January following the next general election.