Sueanna P. Johnson
Colorado Court of Appeals
The Honorable Sueanna P. Johnson was appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals on December 2, 2019 and sworn in February 13, 2020. She is a founding member of and serves on the Board of Directors for the Colorado Disability Bar Association; is a member of and serves on the Board of Directors and the Awards Committee for the Colorado Judicial Institute; is a member of and serves on the Executive Committee for the Minori Yasui Inn of Court; is a member of the Colorado Asian Pacific American Bar Association; and is part of a three-member mentor team through Judge Christine Arguello’s Law School Yes We Can Program for a college graduate applying to law school. Each spring, Judge Johnson participates in the Lorenzo Márquez externship program by sponsoring a diverse law student extern. Before her appointment, she was employed with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office from 2004-2019, first as an Assistant Attorney General, then in 2017 as a Senior Assistant Attorney General in the Business and Licensing Section. While at the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, she also worked in the State Services Section and served on the internal Ethics and Fellowship Committees. Before working at the Attorney General’s Office, she clerked for the Honorable John Coughlin in Denver District Court from 2003-2004. She was admitted to practice before the Colorado courts, the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. She obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2003 and earned her B.A. in Political Science from Colorado College in 1997. During her junior year in college, she studied abroad at the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. As a person with albinism with a visual impairment, she is a member of the National Organization of Albinism and Hypopigmentation. Judge Johnson was born in Seoul, South Korea, and adopted when she was three years old.
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