Fred is a graduate of Amherst College and Albany Law School.   He has been a judge since 1969 when he served as one of the first U.S. Army military judges in Vietnam and was awarded two Bronze Stars and the Air Medal.  He has also been chief deputy district attorney in Denver, he has been variously titled referee, commissioner, and magistrate of the Denver Juvenile Court, and has been in private practice in Breckenridge, CO representing ski resort businesses and school districts.   He became a part-time municipal judge in 1978, and in 1986 Governor Richard Lamm appointed him judge of the Gilpin County Court, where he hears civil, criminal and traffic cases. In the last 10 years he has sat as a District Court Judge in felony matters, as well as juvenile, domestic relations, mental health, and probate cases.  He has been retained by election five times.
See Fred also at 100.JuvenileLaw.net  and www.Show-Ti.me.