Carlos F. Lucero

American judge (born 1940)

Carlos F. Lucero

Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Incumbent
Assumed office February 1, 2021
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
In office June 30, 1995 – February 1, 2021
Appointed by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Seat established by 104 Stat. 5089
Succeeded by	Veronica S. Rossman

Personal details
Born	(1940-11-23) November 23, 1940 (age 83)^[1] Antonito, Colorado, U.S.
Education	Adams State University (BA) George Washington University (JD)

Carlos F. Lucero (born November 23, 1940) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Early life and education

Lucero was born in Antonito, Colorado. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Adams State College in 1961 and a Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School in 1964.^[2]

Career

Lucero served as a law clerk for Judge William Edward Doyle of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado from 1964 to 1965. He worked in private practice of law in Alamosa, Colorado from 1966 to 1995. He was an adjunct professor of legal studies at Adams State College from 1968 to 1995.^[3] He served as the first Hispanic president of the Colorado Bar Association.^[4]

Federal judicial service

Lucero was nominated by President Bill Clinton on March 23, 1995, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, to a new seat created by 104 Stat. 5089. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 30, 1995, and received commission the same day. Lucero was the first Hispanic judge to sit on the Tenth Circuit. He maintained his chambers in Denver. He assumed senior status on February 1, 2021.^[5]

On June 25, 2014, Lucero wrote the majority opinion for the Kitchen v. Herbert case, which strikes down Utah's same-sex marriage ban as unconstitutional.^[6]

References

^ Judiciary, United States Congress Senate Committee on the (1996). Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, on Confirmation of Appointees to the Federal Judiciary. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 772.
^ Judiciary, United States Congress Senate Committee on the (1996). Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, on Confirmation of Appointees to the Federal Judiciary. U.S. Government Printing Office.
^ "Hon. Carlos F. Lucero to be honored by Adams State". Adams State University. 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
^ ".:The U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals:. Judges". Archived from the original on 2010-08-15. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
^ Carlos F. Lucero at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
^ Kitchen v. Herbert, 755 F.3d 1193 Archived 2014-12-21 at the Wayback Machine (10th Cir. 2014).

External links

Carlos F. Lucero at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by Seat established by 104 Stat. 5089	Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit 1995–2021	Succeeded by Veronica S. Rossman

Judges of the United States courts of appeals

Full list · Names in bold represent current chief judges.

1st Circuit

Active	Barron Kayatta Gelpí Montecalvo Rikelman Aframe
Senior	Campbell Selya Lynch Lipez Howard Thompson

2nd Circuit

Active	Livingston Lohier Sullivan Bianco Park Nardini Menashi Lee Robinson Pérez Nathan Merriam Kahn
Senior	Newman Kearse Walker Jacobs Leval Calabresi Cabranes Straub Sack Parker Raggi Wesley Lynch Chin Carney

3rd Circuit

Active	Chagares Jordan Hardiman Shwartz Krause Restrepo Bibas Porter Matey Phipps Freeman Montgomery-Reeves Chung 1 seat vacant
Senior	Stapleton Scirica Cowen Nygaard Roth McKee Rendell Ambro Fuentes Smith Fisher

4th Circuit

Active	Diaz Wilkinson Niemeyer King Gregory Agee Wynn Thacker Harris Richardson Quattlebaum Rushing Heytens Benjamin Berner
Senior	Motz Traxler Keenan Floyd

5th Circuit

Active	Richman Jones Smith Stewart Elrod Southwick Haynes Graves Higginson Willett Ho Duncan Engelhardt Oldham Wilson Douglas Ramirez
Senior	King Jolly Higginbotham Davis Duhé Wiener Barksdale Dennis Clement

6th Circuit

Active	Sutton Moore Clay Gibbons Griffin Kethledge Stranch Thapar Bush Larsen Nalbandian Readler Murphy Davis Mathis Bloomekatz
Senior	Guy Ryan Boggs Norris Suhrheinrich Siler Batchelder Daughtrey Cole Gilman Rogers Cook McKeague White

7th Circuit

Active	Sykes Easterbrook Rovner Brennan Scudder St. Eve Kirsch Jackson-Akiwumi Lee Pryor Kolar
Senior	Bauer Flaum Ripple Manion Hamilton

8th Circuit

Active	Colloton Loken Smith Gruender Benton Shepherd Kelly Erickson Grasz Stras Kobes
Senior	Bowman Wollman Beam Hansen Arnold Melloy

9th Circuit

Active	Murguia Wardlaw Gould Rawlinson Callahan M. Smith Ikuta Christen Nguyen Owens Friedland Bennett R. Nelson Miller Bade Collins Lee Bress Forrest Bumatay VanDyke Koh Sung Sanchez H. Thomas Mendoza Desai Johnstone de Alba
Senior	Wallace Schroeder D. Nelson Canby O'Scannlain Trott Fernandez Kleinfeld Hawkins Tashima S. Thomas Silverman Graber McKeown Fletcher Paez Berzon Tallman Clifton Bybee Bea N. Smith Hurwitz

10th Circuit

Active	Holmes Hartz Tymkovich Matheson Bacharach Phillips McHugh Moritz Eid Carson Rossman Federico
Senior	Seymour Porfilio Anderson Baldock Brorby Ebel Kelly Briscoe Lucero Murphy O'Brien

11th Circuit

Active	W. Pryor Wilson Jordan Rosenbaum J. Pryor Newsom Branch Grant Luck Lagoa Brasher Abudu
Senior	Tjoflat Anderson Edmondson Dubina Black E. Carnes Hull Marcus J. Carnes

D.C. Circuit

Active	Srinivasan Henderson Millett Pillard Wilkins Katsas Rao Walker Childs Pan Garcia
Senior	Edwards Ginsburg Sentelle Randolph Rogers

Federal Circuit

Active	Moore Newman Lourie Dyk Prost Reyna Taranto Chen Hughes Stoll Cunningham Stark
Senior	Mayer Plager Clevenger Schall Bryson Linn Wallach