Sueanna P. Johnson at a glance
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Sueanna P. Johnson
Judge · Colorado Court of Appeals
Biography
Professional career
- Before her appointment, she was employed with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office from 2004-2019, first as an Assistant Attorney General, then in 2017 as a Senior Assistant Attorney General in the Business and Licensing Section.
- Before working at the Attorney General’s Office, she clerked for the Honorable John Coughlin in Denver District Court from 2003-2004.
- While at the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, she also worked in the State Services Section and served on the internal Ethics and Fellowship Committees
Education
- University of Colorado at Boulder in — J.D. (2003)
- Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Colorado College in 1997, studying abroad at the University of Manchester in England during her junior year.
Additional information
- Appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals on December 2, 2019, and sworn in on February 13, 2020.
- During her junior year in college, she studied abroad at the University of Manchester in Manchester, England.
- Judge Johnson has been admitted to practice before the Colorado courts, the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
- She is active within the Colorado Asian Pacific American Bar Association and is a member of the Thompson G. Marsh Inn of Court.
- She previously served on the Board for the Young Lawyers Division of the Colorado Bar Association.
- As a person with albinism and a visual impairment, she is a member of the National Organization of Albinism and Hypopigmentation.
- For that organization, she speaks to parents who have children with albinism, and was a featured adult in the book Raising a Child with Albinism: A Guide to the School Years.
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