This photo, taken in November 2015, shows Chris Seldin, center, during his swearing-in ceremony as a 9th Judicial District judge. Seldin was sworn on the steps of the Pitkin County Courthouse. He announced earlier this year he would not seek retention, and his position was vacated Oct.
5. Gov. Jared Polis recently appointed Pitkin County Deputy Attorney Laura C.
Makar to take Seldin’s seat. For more than two decades, Chris Seldin — who announced in June that he would not be seeking retention for judgeship in the 9th Judicial District —, did much of his work at one of two addresses on East Main Street in Aspen, the seat of Pitkin County. He worked for Pitkin County as an assistant attorney starting in 2002 and moved next door to the Pitkin County Courthouse, where he was sworn in the courthouse steps as district judge in November 2015.
Seldin took the bench after Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, now a U.S.
senator, appointed him to replace retiring Judge Gail Nichols. Gov. Jared Polis, also a Democrat, appointed Pitkin County Deputy Attorney Laura C.
Makar to take Seldin’s seat on the 9th Judicial District Court. Seldin officially hung up his robe on Saturday as Pitkin County district judge. He is moving to Boulder, where he will re-enter the private sector after more than two decades away from it.
Before moving to the Roaring Fork Valley, Seldin had worked two years at an international law firm in San Francisco representing technology companies and financial firms. .