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Daniel Desmond Domenico

Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Chief Judge Born 1972, Boulder, CO

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Donald J. TrumpRepublican president
Seat
COD0503
Nominated
Jan. 23, 2019
Committee action
Reported (favorably)Feb. 7, 2019
Senate vote
57–42Roll Call
Confirmed
April 9, 2019
Commissioned
May 7, 2019
ABA rating
Qualified
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 2026

Source Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Judges. Party shown is the party of the appointing president, which is a fact about the president, not about the judge.

Nominations

Senate nominations naming this judge — their own appointment, or a nomination to the seat they are leaving.

NomineeCourtReceivedOutcomeVote
This judge PN999-2 Tenth Circuit May 12, 2026 Reported to the floor —

Source Congress.gov. A nomination appears here when the name matches this judge exactly; the Federal Judicial Center record above remains the authority for service actually served.

Recent judicial activity

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

  • No recorded activity.

Cases

Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.

No panel assignments recorded in the ingested window.

Judicial writings

No writings are attributed to this judge in the ingested records.

Source Authorship is recorded only where the source data carries it. For recent Courts of Appeals opinions CourtListener frequently publishes the decision as a single document without naming the authoring judge, so an absence here means the attribution is unavailable upstream — not that the judge has written nothing.