Deputy Attorney General Monica Marquez is the first female Hispanic Colorado Supreme Court Justice and she is also the first openly gay jurist on the state’s high court.
But she was quick to tell her colleagues that her allegiance is to the law, not any special interest group when she was sworn in Friday.
“On the bench, of course, my allegiance is to the law, not to any particular constituency,” she said after she was sworn in by her father, retired Judge Jose D.L. Marquez, who was the first Latino appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals.
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Gov. Bill Ritter told the justices that he interviewed Marquez and determined she has a “deep respect for the rule of law.” He said he was reassured she would not show preference.
Wingnuts will freak out, of course, but who cares?
