Edward P. Sands
BAR ADMISSIONS:
- Colorado - - October 1977
- Nebraska - - January 1978 (Inactive)
- United States Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit - - September 1989
- United States District Court (Colorado) - - October 1977
- United States District Court (Nebraska) - - January 1978
EMPLOYMENT:
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1980 - - Present
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Partner: Carter & Sands, P.C., Rifle, Colorado General practice, specializing in real estate, commercial, probate, and local government law. Prosecutor for the City of Rifle, Colorado, and Municipal Attorney for the Towns of Eagle, Collbran, and Dinosaur, Colorado.
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1994 - -Present
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City Attorney for the City of Fruita, Colorado.
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1999 - - Present
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Town Attorney for the Town of Palisade, Colorado.
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1992 --
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Special Counsel for the City of Fruita concerning personnel matters.
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1987 - - 1991
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Instructor: Business law, Colorado Mountain College, Rifle, Colorado.
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1980 - - 1984
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Municipal Attorney: Town of Meeker, Colorado.
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1980 - - 1984
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Municipal Judge: Town of New Castle, Colorado.
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1980 - - 1982
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Municipal Attorney: Town of Parachute, Colorado.
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1979 - - 1980
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Sole Practitioner: Rifle, Colorado.
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1977 - - 1979
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Partner: Sands & Davy, Attorneys, Rifle, Colorado.
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1977 - - 1978
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General Counsel: Standard Meat Colorado, Inc., Lincoln, Nebraska.
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1976 - - 1977
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Law Clerk: Ginsburg, Rosenberg, Ginsburg & Krivosha, Lincoln, Nebraska.
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CIVIC ACTIVITIES:
Member, Board of Directors, Rifle Area Industrial Development, Inc. R.A.I.D.
Secretary and member of Board of Directors, Garfield Legal Services, Inc., a legal aid organization.
President, Eider Creek Condominium Association,Telluride, Colorado.
Judge, Rifle High School Moot Court Competition.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
Member, Colorado Bar Association, Ninth Judicial District Bar Association,
and Colorado Municipal League Attorneys’ Section.
Member, Colorado Municipal League Governmental Immunity Committee, 1991.
EDUCATION:
Duke University, Durham, NC; A.B., December 1973. Major: Political Science and History.
University of Nebraska, College of Law, Lincoln, NE; J.D., May 1977.
Honors and Activities: Member, Allen Moot Court Board;
Recipient of the Law Student Division/ABA Silver Key Award for Meritorious Service;
Vice President, Student Bar Association;
Finalist, Junior Rounds Moot Court Competition;
Member, Law School Curriculum Committee.
PUBLICATIONS:
“Quasi Judicial Proceedings,” Course Material, Colorado Municipal League 62nd Annual
Conference, Municipal Attorneys’ Section, Vail, Colorado, 1984.
REFERENCES:
References will be supplied upon request.
Stephen L. Carter
Judge Carter was appointed as one of the Garfield County, Colorado, judges shortly after graduating from law school in 1971, and retired from that position in March, 2004. In addition, he has practiced municipal, probate and real estate law first as a sole practitioner, and then as a member of Carter & Sands, P.C., Rifle, Colorado.
As County Judge, he handled all types of misdemeanor and traffic cases, civil restraining orders, and civil cases; and has presided over hundreds of jury trials and several hundred civil and criminal court trials. For several years, he was also a specially appointed District Judge in the Ninth Judicial District to hear and decide all juvenile delinquency cases in Garfield County. He has also acted as a settlement judge for District Court cases, an arbitrator, a hearing officer for local governments, and as a Special Master in probate matters. He has volunteered his time to create the Garfield County Teen Court, and is a licensed high school soccer referee.
His law practice emphasizes municipal, real estate and probate law; representative clients of the firm have included a local bank and title company, the Towns of Eagle, Parachute, Rangely, and Dinosaur, the City of Rifle, and all of the incorporated municipalities in Mesa County except for Collbran and Grand Junction. He has also been involved as a litigator in the District Court.
Judge Carter graduated from Boulder High School, then the University of Colorado with a degree in journalism; served in the Peace Corps in Colombia; and finally returned to attend and graduate from the University of Colorado School of Law.
Current Employment: Arbitrator/Mediator with the Legal Resolution Center and a principal in the firm of Carter & Sands, P.C., Rifle, Colorado.
Bar Admissions: Colorado, 1971.
Education:
- University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, Colorado, 1971, J.D.
- University of Colorado School of Journalism, Boulder, Colorado, 1967, B.S.
Professional Associations and Memberships: Colorado and Ninth Judicial District Bar Associations
Employment:
- Garfield County Judge, 1972-2004
- Carter & Sands, P.C. Private Practice 1980 - present
- Private Practice (Sole Practitioner) 1972-1980
- Ninth Judicial District Attorney - Deputy District Attorney 1971-1972
- Peace Corps, Colombia, 1967-1968.
Born: May, 1945, New York City.
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