Karl L. Schock

Colorado Court of Appeals

The Honorable Karl L. Schock was appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals in 2022. Before his appointment to the court, Judge Schock served for seven years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Appellate Division of the District of Colorado, where he handled criminal and civil appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Before that, Judge Schock was a shareholder and associate attorney at the law firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, where he practiced commercial litigation. Judge Schock began his career as a law clerk for the Honorable Michael R. Murphy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He received his B.S. in Public Relations, summa cum laude, from Northern Arizona University in 2003, and his J.D., Order of the Coif, from the University of Colorado School of Law in 2006. Judge Schock is a member of the Model Criminal Jury Instructions Committee and has been a frequent presenter on legal writing and appellate practice.  He is a longtime coach of his children’s baseball and soccer teams and a marathon runner and triathlete.

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