{"id":15484,"date":"2025-11-26T17:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/three-apply-for-san-juan-county-court-judgeship-in-silverton\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:48:10","slug":"three-apply-for-san-juan-county-court-judgeship-in-silverton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/three-apply-for-san-juan-county-court-judgeship-in-silverton\/","title":{"rendered":"Three apply for San Juan County Court judgeship in Silverton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d0741bf9-33aa-42af-9447-06dff8f65448&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"The San Juan County Courthouse. (Durango Herald file)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The San Juan County Courthouse. (Durango Herald file)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Three applicants have thrown their hats into the ring to become the next judge for San Juan County Court in Silverton.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release from the Colorado Judicial Branch, Shane Goranson of Durango, Kelly Tompkins of Silverton and Laura Freeman of Montrose applied for the judgeship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCounty court judges are appointed to one county and handle civil actions less than $25,000, minor criminal matters and traffic cases,\u201d said judicial district spokeswoman Amy Woodward. \u201cSometimes they also handle probate and juvenile cases as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whoever is appointed will preside over any cases within the jurisdiction of San Juan County, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>Public comment is open regarding the candidates until 4 p.m. Friday, and can be e-mailed to <a href=\"mailto:judicial.vacancies@judicial.state.co.us\">judicial.vacancies@judicial.state.co.us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-f657edf956fa504561729442b4e548f3\"><a href=\"mailto:sedmondson@durangoherald.com\">sedmondson@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>commenting period open through Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1078,28,1646,1515,1562,994],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-6th-judicial-district","tag-headlines","tag-judge","tag-judiciary-system-of-justice","tag-san-juan-county-colorado","tag-trueanthem"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19681,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484\/revisions\/19681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15484"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}