A proclamation recognizing the service of Judge Brian Thomas Campbell to the City of Denver.
All right, moving on. There are no presentations and there are no communications this evening, but we do have one proclamation being read aloud. Councilmember Ortega, will you please read Proclamation 215? I would be happy to. Thank you, Mr. President. Proclamation number 202 15 Recognizing the service of Judge Bryant Thomas Campbell to the city of Denver. Whereas Brian Thomas Campbell was appointed by Mayor William H. McNichols, Jr. To Denver County Court and sworn in on March ten, 1980. Thereafter, he was appointed presiding judge of said court by Mayor Federico Pena in 1990 and reappointed to that position by Mayor Wellington Webb in 1991. And. Whereas, during his term as presiding Judge, Campbell oversaw the move of the Civil Division from the basement of the city and county building to the Radisson Office Complex, and proposed, with the help of the Denver Bar Association president Joe Dish Singer the creation of a warm welcome child care center. Most importantly, in 1992, he established one of the first full time restraining order courts in the nation. And. Whereas, in 1985, Judge Campbell was assigned the task of implementing the first Denver County Environmental Court. In 1989, Judge Campbell was the first Denver County Court judge to utilize the alternative jail sentences such as in-home detention. Finally, in 2011, Judge Campbell was selected as the first judge to establish and preside over the first. Denver County Court. Denver County Sobriety. Court. Whereas during his career, Judge Campbell received numerous awards recognizing his work, including the Denver Bar Association's Judicial Excellence Award in 1990. The Colorado Women's Education and Employment. Silver Frame Flame Award in 1995. The Children's Law Center Champion for Children Award in 1998. The Denver Domestic Violence Coordinating Council Excellence Award in 1999. Excuse me. The Catholic Lawyers Guild. Saint Thomas More Award in 2002. The Safe House. Carolyn Hamill. Henderson Memorial Award in 2008. In the Colorado County Court. Judges Anthony Greco Award in 2019. Now therefore being proclaimed by the Council of the City and County of Denver. Section one that the Council of the City and County Denver recognizes Judge Brian Thomas Campbell invaluable service to the city of Denver throughout his career and the positive impact his leadership has had on our community. His career represents a true commitment to uphold the values of justice in public service. Section two that the Clerk of the city and county of Denver shall affix the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation and that a copy be transmitted to Judge Campbell and his family. Thank you, Councilmember Ortega. Your motion to adopt. I move for the adoption of proclamation number two. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded comments by members of Council. Councilmember Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. I think I have just one year on Judge Campbell in working with the city of Denver or coming to work for the city of Denver. But over the years have had much opportunities to interface with Judge Campbell in his various capacities. And one of the things the proclamation doesn't mention is the annual reception that is held with all of the judges in city council, where we have an opportunity to at least know who are county court judges are and have a chance to just interface with them. And I don't remember if that was started by you, Judge Campbell, but I think being able to have that interface is really important. It's not that very often that we actually work with our judges to shape some of the policies. I know from time to time, a number of our judges have sat on various committees. And Judge Campbell has, in fact, been one of those who has helped from from the bench side shape a lot of the policy decisions that really kind of address how people are handled when they come to courts in a different way. And I just want to say thank you, Judge Campbell, to you, to your family for for letting you spend so much of your time here working with the people of Denver, but really appreciate your many, many years of service to the city of Denver and just want to encourage all of my colleagues to support this proclamation tonight . Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. And unfortunately, Councilwoman Black couldn't be here tonight but wanted me to read her. Congratulations. Like Council and Black. Judge Campbell is a near lifelong resident of Southeast Denver. And her constituent, in fact, he grew up with Councilwoman Black's older sister when they were kids. South Colorado Boulevard was a two lane dirt road. Back then, Denver was having a housing crisis due to the postwar population boom. Houses were hastily constructed in the under undeveloped part of Denver so that families had a place to live. But the building of schools was behind schedule as the first high school in far southeast Denver and Denver's fifth high school, Thomas Jefferson High School, opened in 1960 with grades six through 12. Judge Campbell and Councilwoman Black Sister started as seventh graders and graduated together. This is what put southeast Denver on the map. A real high school. Since then, Judge Campbell has had an incredible career as a judge and a positive impact on people who live in Denver. He cares deeply about his native city and every single person who lives here. He's helped many in need and leaves a positive legacy. From Kendra Valley's black and Debra Valleys, your southeast Denver friends, congratulations and thank you for a life well lived, a great career, and for your incredible service to our beloved city. All right, Madam Secretary, roll call on our proclamation. Ortega. I see. Tobacco I. Flynn I. Gilmore by Herndon. Hines. I can eat. I. Sandoval. I. Sawyer, i. Torres, i. Council President. I. Almost everybody up there on the screen. Anybody? Mr. Madam Secretary, please go to the voting. Announce the result. 11 Eyes. 11 Eyes. Proclamation 215 has been adopted. We do have 5 minutes set aside for proclamation acceptance. Is there someone you'd like to call up Councilmember? Yes, there is. I would like to ask Judge Bryant Thomas Campbell, if you would please join us at the podium. Thank you, counsel. Well, one or two and I can actually forfeit two or 3 minutes because she did such a wonderful job of pointing so many things out. The fact that we've been together for so long, knowing each other, running into each other in the halls. More importantly, her comments about the judges functions that we have periodically. I think we're probably going to have one here in the very near future because we've got some new council people and it's a good way to get to know the judges and the judges to get to know better. The council members, even the mayor comes. So it's it's a good reception that we have. And I think it speaks to what one of the things that makes Denver so unique, and that is we're all pulling together on all these things. Councilwoman Ortega, my ears perked up when you were talking about having the function that you're having and that you're going to focus in on evictions and rental assistance and everything like that. The Denver County Court is 100% behind that. We're pushing the envelope as far as we can. We're catching some flak from it. But it's it's important to you. It's important to county court. It's important to all of us. So there's a lot of things that we can foster if we just work together and we're more than happy to work together on that. So I do want to introduce my family to the far right there is my brother in law, John Rose. He's a cardiologist out at I.C.U. East Carolina University, Denver native, too. As was mentioned earlier, his wife, Jane Rose. My wife, Cheryl Rose. And it's kind of interesting because Cheryl went to North High School. And as we mentioned, I went to T.J. so she was on the northwest corner and I was on the south east corner. And yet really, we were high school sweethearts, but we didn't meet till we were 49 and 50. That explains why I didn't they too much in high school and everything like that. So thank you for the honor. Councilwoman Ortega. And thank you all for voting for it. I think it's the only time in my life where everybody everybody's voted for me. And thank you so much for your service to our city. All right. Thank you for bringing that forward, Councilmember Ortega. That brings us to our bills for introduction. Madam Secretary, will you please read the bills for Introduction.