Judge Juan G. Villaseñor was appointed as a District Judge by Governor Hickenlooper in 2018. Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Villaseñor was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Colorado (2008-18). There, he investigated and prosecuted civil claims and criminal matters. He also represented federal agencies and employees in a wide variety of defensive cases. Between 2014 and 2016, Judge Villaseñor was detailed to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney. Prior to become a federal prosecutor, Judge Villaseñor was an Assistant Attorney General in Tennessee (2003–08). At the beginning of his career, he was the Justice William J. Brennan First Amendment Fellowship Attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in New York and a law clerk to U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes, Jr., in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Judge Villaseñor earned his A.B. from St. John’s College, his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School and an LL.M. in Judicial Studies from Duke University School of Law.