David S. Prince

4th Judicial District
The Honorable David S. Prince graduated from law school in 1990 with Order of the Coif honors and law review. He served as a clerk for a federal judge and spent his private practice career at Holland & Hart. He was an AV rated commercial litigator. As a young partner, he was elected to the firm's management committee and, in that role, helped to lead a $100 million per year multi state law firm. Judge Prince was appointed to the district court bench in 2006 and took a70%, six figure pay cut to serve in this new role. He has served in leadership within his district and in statewide roles such as our problem solving court system. As a judge, he served on the organizing committee for the annual Educating Children of Color summit for approximately five years under the leadership of Judge Regina Walter. He served as a volunteer mentor in El Pomar's College Readiness and Success Program in which he mentored a group of diverse students through all four years of high school in preparation for life thereafter. Judge Prince was involved in early implicit bias trainings in the legal community. Memorably being a member of faculty in a joint program between the NAACP and law enforcement in the midst of the protests that followed events in Ferguson, MO in 2014. For more than 10 years, he organized the local bar association's annual Habitat for Humanity build where he became known primarily for the quality of the food he served the volunteers. For 15 years, he has also organized and cooked for an annual Mardi Gras pop up restaurant at his courthouse, feeding and entertaining about 200 employees each year. He and his culinary partners can still be persuaded to cook for bar functions now and then. Judge Prince is originally from New Orleans. He has been with his wife since 1991 and the two have two children who are both in college to become engineers. Judge Prince serves as an editor for Court Review, the quarterly journal of the American Judges Association. In addition to being a member of faculty with the National Judicial College, Judge Prince has taught law and rule of law programs internationally with the State Dept as well as through a UNESCO program. He was working with the Ukraine judiciary for follow up classes when Ukraine was invaded. He has taught audiences ranging from rural Cambodia where students went home to dirt floors to the sophistication of the assembled judiciary of the Kingdom of Jordan.
 
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