Background
A native of Austin, Texas, Márquez grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado and graduated as valedictorian from Grand Junction High School in 1987.
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She then attended Yale Law School, earning a Juris Doctor in 1997 and serving as an editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Career
Previously a Deputy Colorado Attorney General, she was appointed by Governor Bill Ritter to the Supreme Court in 2010 to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey. She was sworn in on December 10, 2010. She went on to clerk for two federal judges: Michael Ponsor of the District of Massachusetts and David M. Ebel of the Tenth Circuit.
She also served as chairwoman of the Denver Mayor’s GLBT Commission.
Her father, Jose Doctorate.L. Márquez, was the first Latino judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals. On August 24, 2010, the Colorado Supreme Court Nominating Commission selected Márquez as one of three candidates to replace Mary Mullarkey on the Colorado Supreme Court.
On September 8, 2010, Democratic Governor Bill Ritter announced Márquez as his choice to replace Mullarkey. Márquez is the first Latina and first openly gay person to serve on the Colorado Supreme Court.
She is one of eight openly LGBT judges serving on state supreme courts.
Achievements
Membership
Márquez is a past president of the Colorado GLBT Bar Association and a board member of the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association.
