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Colorado Judicial Branch
Mary J. Mullarkey, Chief Justice
Gerald Marroney, State Court Administrator
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Dec. 8, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact:Karen Salaz
303/837-3633
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Eagle Combined Clerk’s Office recognized for outstanding work
by Colorado Judicial Department
DENVER, Colo. – The Eagle Combined Clerk’s Office located in Eagle, Fifth Judicial District (Clear Creek, Eagle, Lake and Summit counties),has been recognized with the Colorado Judicial Branch’sOutstanding Team Award. The award recognizes exemplary performance by employees in the Colorado judicial system.
The Colorado Judicial Department annually recognizes a handful of outstanding employees who are singled out for their exemplary work contributing to the high quality of service provided throughout the state’s 22 judicial districts making up the Colorado judicial system. This is the seventeenth year of the recognition and incentive program.
The clerk’s office staff, nominated by 5th Judicial District Chief Judge Terry Ruckriegle, was recognized for the employees’ dedication and commitment to public service under extremely intense pressure from the media as well as dealing with the district’s highest caseload increase.
“Although already faced with the highest caseload increase in the Fifth Judicial District, the Eagle Clerk’s Office was pushed into the national spotlight with a high profile case filed in their court,” says Ruckriegle in hisnomination of the teamfor the award.
The office, under the leadership of Clerk of the Court Jackie Cooper, has had to implement a complex system of file sharing, communications procedures, workload sharing, and handling of files and pleadings. The clerk’s office staff has done this to enable it to meet the demands of their normal customers while at the same time being responsive to the intense pressure placed upon it by the media.
The Colorado State Judicial Branch includes the state’s county and district courts, Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. A total of 2,848* judicial employees including 257 judges and justices work to resolve cases in a fair, timely manner and ensure that probationers are supervised appropriately. In Fiscal Year 2004, 514,096 cases were filed statewide at the county court level, 177,369 in district court, 1,285 in water court, 2,558 in the Court of Appeals, and 1,317 in the Supreme Court. The number of total active adult probation cases was 39,207. There were 7,869 active juvenile cases.
* This is the total Full Time Equivalent (FTE) allocated in the Judicial Branch. One FTE in some cases is divided between two or more people.
Editor’s note: The Fifth Judicial District includes Clear Creek, Eagle, Lake and Summit counties.
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