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Sept. 25, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Karen Salaz
303/837-3633
1-800-888-0001 Ext. 633
Pueblo court clerk named Outstanding Clerk’s Office Employee
Tiffany Moruzzi honored with Colorado Judicial Branch award
The Colorado Judicial Branch’s Outstanding Clerk’s Office Employee is Tiffany Moruzzi, who works in the clerk’s office of the combined district and county courts of the Tenth Judicial District.*The Colorado Judicial Branch annually recognizes a handful of outstanding employees for exemplary work contributing to the high quality of service provided throughout the state’s 22 judicial districts.
“She has an unquenchable thirst for knowledge,” says Moruzzi’s boss, Tenth Judicial District Clerk of Court Laura Lasater, who nominated her for the award. “She wants to be trained and be proficient in all departments.”
Moruzzi’s co-workers praise her for her humility, for her role as a mentor to many new employees and for her willingness to help everyone and take on additional responsibilities. She recently undertook the job of working on the court’s juvenile dependency and neglect cases while the co-worker regularly assigned to the position is on maternity leave.
“Her work was always completed in a timely fashion and she requested to learn new job assignments,” says Moruzzi’s former supervisor in the judicial district’s collection department, Sherri Gasperetti-Sowards. “She always had a smile on her face and was always willing to go the extra mile for her job duties.”
The Colorado Judicial Branch includes the state’s county and district courts, Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. A total of 3,139** judicial employees including 275 judges and justices work to resolve cases in a fair, timely manner and ensure that probationers are supervised appropriately. In Fiscal Year 2006, which ended June 30, 2006, 556,136 cases were filed statewide at the county court level and 189,415 cases were filed in district court, 1,109 in the state water courts, 2,748 in the Court of Appeals and 1,393 in the Supreme Court. The number of total active adult probation cases was more than 40,000 at the end of Fiscal Year 2006 and there were 7,870 active juvenile probation cases.
* The Tenth Judicial District comprises PuebloCounty.
** 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.
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