{"id":24170,"date":"2025-01-02T23:49:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T06:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/kristen-m-m-tarrin-joins-dolores-county-court\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:50:04","slug":"kristen-m-m-tarrin-joins-dolores-county-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/kristen-m-m-tarrin-joins-dolores-county-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen M.M. Tarrin joins Dolores County Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=68186971-299d-5873-8805-a5d1e865368b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"846\" height=\"842\" alt=\"Kristen M. M. Tarrin. (Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Kristen M. M. Tarrin. (Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Jared Polis appointed Kristen M.M. Tarrin to the Dolores County Court in the 22nd Judicial District on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Her addition to the court, which is effective immediately, fills a vacancy that Ian MacLaren left in November when he became a judge in the Montezuma County Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very much looking forward to it,\u201d said Tarrin. \u201cI\u2019m really excited to get to know the community of Dolores County.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tarrin has worked in the 22nd Judicial District since 2023 as a Magistrate, primarily working on domestic and juvenile matters, according to a news release announcing the appointment. She also worked as the district\u2019s child and family investigator since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all come together,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2021, Tarrin has held four positions \u2013 child and family investigator, Guardian ad Litem, attorney and mediator \u2013 at McLaughlin Tarrin Law LLC.<\/p>\n<p>Going into those roles, she already had a year under her belt as a child and family investigator at Pitler and Associates P.C.<\/p>\n<p>At that same firm, she was a mediator for 11 years, from 2010 to 2021, and an associate attorney from 2007 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Tarrin secured her first university-level degree in 1991, with a bachelor\u2019s from the University of Colorado Boulder. In 2006, she earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Jared Polis appointed her on New Year\u2019s Eve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,76],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-24170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-u-s-22nd-judicial-district"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24170","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=24170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78429,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24170\/revisions\/78429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24170"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=24170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}