Judge Profiles

Patricia Madsen was appointed in 1989 to the Denver County Court, where she still sits pro tem. She was also a magistrate in the Denver District Court in the Domestic Relations Division.

Ms. Madsen's legal practice now focuses on water transactions and water rights litigation. She also has experience with proceedings before the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board, family law, and state and federal civil litigation. She has worked on projects for the City and County of Broomfield, High Plains, Perry Park Country Club, and the City of Black Hawk, and worked on cases in Colorado Water Court, Divisions 1 and 5, Colorado District Courts in Arapahoe, Denver, El Paso, Jefferson, and Weld Counties, and on appeals before the Colorado Supreme Court, Colorado Court of Appeals, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans' Claims.

Ms. Madsen served two terms as a judge of the Denver County Court, where she still sits pro tem. Before becoming Special Counsel to Duncan, Ostrander & Dingess, she practiced of counsel to the Law Office of Marshall Brodsky, Roger L. Keithley, Jeanne L. Busacca and, most recently, Harvey W. Curtis & Associates.

After undergraduate work at Brandeis University and the University Without Walls Program at Loretto Heights College, Ms. Madsen earned her J.D. from the University of Denver in 1976 and was a Clinical Fellow at the Antioch College School of Law. She has served as a NITA instructor, written for The Colorado Lawyer and the University of Denver Water Law Review, and is a member of the Colorado Bar Association, the Colorado Women's Bar Association, and the Inter-American Bar Association.