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Weld County District Court Overview

Colorado District Courts hear civil cases in any amount, felony criminal cases, domestic relations, juvenile, probate, mental health, and water matters. Weld County is the 19th Judicial District, and the district coincides with Weld County boundaries. That makes the local structure more direct than a multi-county district. State District Court, County Court, water court functions, the Clerk of Court, probation, collections, jury information, and virtual courtroom links all route through the Colorado Judicial Branch Weld County court page.

The primary court location is the Weld County court campus in Greeley. The court page lists the Weld County Courthouse at 901 9th Avenue, Plaza West at 910 10th Avenue, and the Weld County Centennial Center at 915 10th Street. The court mailing address is P.O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632. Building hours are Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., while Centennial Center clerk windows close promptly at 4:00 p.m. Brenda Palm is listed as Clerk of Court on the Weld judges and staff page.

Weld County District Court Judges

The official judges and staff list is the most precise public source for Weld County District Court divisions. The table below uses the research capture from that source and keeps division assignments separate from courthouse room assignments, because hearing location can change by docket, summons, or case type. Users should confirm a hearing through the docket search or the notice issued by the court.

Magistrates also appear on the official Weld list, including divisions A, C, D, 2, 7, 14, and weekend bond hearings. Magistrates may handle specified proceedings and first-stage matters, but the case type and order of reference control what a magistrate can decide.

Weld County District Court Records

District Court is not interchangeable with County Court or a municipal court. Weld County District Court records usually involve higher-stakes state trial court matters, while County Court and municipal courts handle narrower case groups. The distinction affects where a court record is searched, which clerk holds the file, and whether the case appears under a state court case class such as CR, CV, DR, PR, JV, JD, or CW.

City cases may require separate city action. Greeley, Frederick, Fort Lupton, Lochbuie, and other Weld municipalities can have traffic or ordinance records that do not function like District Court case files.

Weld County Case Flow

District Court case flow depends on the case type. A felony criminal case may start after arrest, complaint, information, or indictment, then move through first appearance, bond, arraignment, pretrial litigation, plea or trial, disposition, and sentencing. A civil case usually begins with a complaint or petition, followed by service, answer, motions, discovery, settlement activity, trial or judgment, and possible appeal. Probate, juvenile, domestic, and water matters use their own pleadings and review paths.

Criminal flow: Arrest or summons › First appearance › Charging document › Arraignment › Pretrial hearings › Plea or trial › Disposition › Sentencing › Appeal.

Civil flow: Complaint or petition › Service › Answer › Motions › Discovery › Settlement or trial › Judgment › Post-judgment action › Appeal.

Appeals from most Colorado District Court and County Court matters go to the Colorado Court of Appeals unless direct Colorado Supreme Court review applies. The Colorado Supreme Court remains the highest state court and supervises the state court system.

Weld County District Case Types

The Weld County District Court record set includes civil, felony criminal, domestic relations, juvenile, probate, mental health, and water case categories. The Colorado docket search exposes case class filters that help identify the record type. CR is used for criminal cases, CV for civil, DR for domestic relations, JV and JD for juvenile matters, PR for probate, and CW for water cases. The source form exposes the case classes rather than providing a full legal definition for each code, so local copy should not overstate code meanings.

District Court records can include complaints, informations, petitions, answers, motions, orders, judgments, dispositions, sentence orders, probate letters, wills, applications, protection orders, and scheduled events. Some of these are public. Others may be redacted, suppressed, or limited by law. Juvenile, mental health, adoption, sealed, and protected-person material should not be treated as open online records.

Register of Action

A summary record of events and filings in a case, not the full document image.

Disposition

The outcome of a charge, claim, or case.

Certified copy

A copy authenticated by the Clerk of Court for official use.

Sealed record

A record blocked from ordinary public access by statute or court order.

Search Weld County District Court

The free Colorado Judicial Branch docket search is the first public search channel for Weld County District Court hearing information. Select the 19th Judicial District, Weld County, and the Weld County Courthouse when those filters fit the search. Court type can be set to District, County, or Both. The form says at least one filter in addition to date is required.

For case documents, use the record/document request form. For a paid public register of action, the Colorado vendor route can show summaries for many open and closed District Court cases, but it does not provide document images and excludes sealed, juvenile, probate, suppressed, confidential, and some non-public information. Specific case information may also be obtained by contacting the Weld court directly at 970-475-2400.

Arrest, jail, and sheriff report records are separate from District Court case records. Sheriff Steve Reams and the Weld Sheriff Records Unit are the law-enforcement records route when the record is not the court case file.

1. Start with the docket search for hearing dates and a case number.
2. Use District Court as the court type for felony, divorce, probate, juvenile, civil, mental health, and water matters.
3. Use party, attorney, or case-number fields when the date range alone is too broad.
4. Request documents from the court when a pleading, order, certified copy, or full case record is needed.
5. Check a municipal court instead when the citation or charge is city-based.

Weld County District Court History

Official Weld history gives the court campus unusual local depth. Weld County was organized in 1861 after St. Vrain County was renamed, and the county seat moved several times in the first 16 years. It went from St. Vrain to Latham, to Evans, to Greeley, back to Evans, and finally back to Greeley in 1877. Since 1883, the courthouse has stood at the corner of 9th Street and 9th Avenue in downtown Greeley.

The current historic courthouse was completed in 1917 and became known as the "Jewel of the Plains." Official county history describes it as a Beaux-Arts public building designed by W.N. Bowman. The 19th Judicial District history also notes that when Colorado became a state in 1876, the state constitution created a Supreme Court and four judicial districts. Weld once shared judges with Larimer and Boulder counties, but today Weld is its own 19th Judicial District.

The official 19th Judicial District history source connects Weld County District Court history with the local courthouse and water court role.

That history helps explain why the Weld court campus is both a local trial court center and a specialty water court location.