About the Court
The U.S. Immigration Court in Denver was established in 1983 when EOIR was created as a separate agency from the DHS. Originally, there was one judge and one clerical support staff. The interpreter responsibilities were contacted out on an as-needed basis. The court was supervised by the Court Administrator in San Francisco as a satellite office.
By 1991, the court consisted of three Immigration Judges, three Clerk-Typists, and three Interpreters. In January of 1992 Judge Sellers retired and was not replaced. The administrative duties were transferred to Seattle, then San Francisco, again as a satellite office. Due to an increase in the caseload, it was decided that a full time Court Administrator was needed to oversee the office. In March of 1995, Alec Revelle was appointed the Court Administrator.
Currently, the staffing for the office is as follows: four Immigration Judges, one Court Administrator, seven Legal Assistants and three Interpreters.
In addition to the downtown Denver office, there are two courtrooms and support staff at the WSI detention facility in Aurora, Colorado. This office is approximately 20 miles from the Denver office. The following is a breakdown for the staffing assignments by location: WSI - three Legal Assistants and one Interpreter; downtown Denver - four Legal Assistants and two Interpreters. The Denver office is also responsible for the following detail city locations: North Dakota; South Dakota; Wyoming, and the IHP cases conducted in Canon City, Colorado. The caseload for North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming is very small and is done on an "as-needed" basis. There are no set times during the year that hearings are conducted for these locations. Hearings under the IHP program in Canon City are done approximately once every other month, with a judge and interpreter traveling to this location.