William Joseph Martinez

Judge William Joseph Martinez

Personal

Birthday:

1954

Birthplace:

Mexico City, Mexico

Race or Ethnicity:

Hispanic

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

Staff attorney, Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago [Illinois], 1980-1987
Private practice, Denver, Colorado, 1988-1992, 1997-2010
Regional attorney, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Denver, Colorado, 1992-1996

Given name at birth: Jose Guillermo Martinez Escalante

Education

Name of School:

University of Illinois

Degree:

B.A., B.Sc.

Degree Year:

1977

Name of School - Second:

University of Chicago Law School

The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America 's great cities, Chicago offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind. Learning is participatory. Chicago does not seek to impose a single viewpoint or style of thought on its students. Instead, our faculty exposes students to contrasting views, confident in students' abilities to choose their own paths.

Degree - Second:

J.D.

Degree Year - Second:

1980

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. District Court, District of Colorado

Court Name:

Colorado District Court

President Nominating:

Barack Obama

Party Affiliation of President:

Democratic

Commission Date:

12/21/2010