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New judge on bench in 21st District
ALEX ZORN Jul 19, 2019 Updated Jul 19, 2019
When Matthew Barrett moved to Mesa County to take on a new role as court magistrate in March 2018, he had hopes of one day becoming a judge.
His work paid off Monday as he started his first day as district court judge in Mesa County.
"Short-term goals are to get up to speed as quickly as I can so I can deliver the right results for the people that come before me and do the best job I can for the people of Mesa County," he said.
Barrett was selected by Gov. Jared Polis to become a new district court judge thanks to Senate Bill 19-43.
The bill increased the number of judges by one in the 1st, 8th, 10th, 13th, 17th, 18th and 21st judicial districtsto help with the caseload. The number of judges alsoincreased by twoin the 4th and 19th judicial districts and by four in the 2nd judicial district.
Barrett has been district court magistrate for the 21st Judicial District since 2018. He also has experience serving as a senior deputy district attorney in the 9th Judicial District Attorney's Office, which covers Garfield, Pitkin and Rio Blanco counties.
At the 9th Judicial District, Barrett was named Prosecutor of the Year in 2011. By 2017, he was named a Chief Deputy District Attorney. That experience, combined with his work as deputy district attorney in the 14th Judicial District Attorney's Office, serving Grand, Moffat and Routt counties, provided him with the broad caseload experience he will now need as judge.
"I think I will continue to interact with litigants, (it will just be) across a more varying plane of the law," he explained. "I don't think it will be much different than what I did as magistrate, (it will) just be on a more broader plane."
As magistrate, Barrett saw cases dealing with domestic relations matters.
In Colorado, magistrates are directed by chief judges and though they don't have the same authority to conduct jury trials or conclude civil cases, magistrates do handle procedural aspects of cases to help alleviate the workload of the court system, including deciding the merits of a case, according to the Colorado Judicial Branch.
Workloads are determined by the chief judge and can range in what areas they cover, which include juvenile, domestic relations and other areas of judicial proceedings.
Barrett said in Mesa County the magistrates handle juvenile, dependency and neglect and domestic relations cases. Though he said his docket was predominantly domestic relations, he would fill in on the other areas when needed.
"It is great training because magistrates act like judges and have the same authority as judges," he explained. "Their authority is simply limited by the types and kinds of cases they can handle and the types of hearings they hold. Magistrates can do most everything in domestic law cases other than final orders. I think this gives magistrates great experience for having been engaged in the same type of work as a district court judge."
The past 16 months he's spent as magistrate gave Barrett experience with different cases and different case classes, which he feels will serve him well now on the bench.
"I started to feel that becoming a judge would be a great way to provide public service that I've always enjoyed, but in a more impactful way to the community at large," Barrett explained. "Even though [as magistrate] I dealt with domestic relations matters that I hadn't dealt with in the past, I was excited about the opportunity to delve into that type of law, which helped ensure this was what I wanted to do with my career."
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