Christine M. Arguello
US District Court D-CO
Honorable Christine M. Arguello was sworn in as a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado in 2008. Prior to her presidential appointment to the bench, Judge Arguello’s career included partnership at two private law firms, Holland & Hart LLP and Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP, government service as Chief Deputy Attorney General of Colorado and as Managing Senior Associate Counsel at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and teaching at the University of Kansas School of Law, where she was a tenured full professor. Judge Arguello is the co-author of a casebook, “Evidence: The Objection Method,” which is used in numerous law schools around the country. In 2011, Judge Arguello was a juror in a four week state criminal trial and, as a result of her experience as a juror, she totally revamped how she conducts jury trials. In 2014, Judge Arguello implemented Law School…Yes We Can (LSYWC), a law school pipeline mentoring program in which college students who are interested in becoming lawyers are paired with mentors, provided with skill-building and exposure programming, and participate in an intensive LSAT preparation course. The end goal of LSYWC is to level the playing field and assist the students in gaining acceptance into the law school of their choice. For more information on the program, please go to http://lawschoolyeswecan.org. Judge Arguello has received numerous honors and awards for the many glass ceilings she has shattered and for the work she has done to provide guidance and inspiration to those who wish to enter the legal profession. Those honors include being inducted into both the Colorado Latino Hall of Fame (2019) and the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame (2014).
05/22
