P. Andrew Jones Windsor, Colorado
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Mr. Jones' practice concentrates on water rights and water quality issues, with particular emphasis on groundwater matters and legal issues arising out of the interaction between surface and ground water systems. A graduate of Vermont Law School, one of the nation's leading environmental law schools, he has extensive experience representing water districts, individuals, and corporate clients in litigation at trial and appellate levels in cases ranging in size from individual water rights matters to complex, basin-wide, multi-party litigation. His experience extends to legislative, administrative, and policy forums, where he represents clients' interests in the development of water law and policy. He was recently appointed by the Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court to serve on a Committee created to study potential reform of Colorado's water court system. He teaches classes on water rights issues, and is a frequently requested guest speaker in educational forums. Mr. Jones' first book, Colorado Water Rights for Non-Lawyers, written in cooperation with Thomas V. Cech, author of Principles of Water Resources: History, Development and Policy, is expected to be published in the summer of 2008 by the University Press of Colorado.
Appointments
Water Court Committee, Colorado Supreme Court, December 2007- August 2008. Appointed by Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary J. Mullarkey to serve on a Committee charged with reviewing Colorado's Water Court process, identifying possible ways through rule and/or statutory change to achieve efficiencies in water court cases, and ensuring the highest level of competence in water court case participants.
Public Service and Community Affiliations
Outward Bound Graduate, Holy Cross Wilderness, Colorado, 1986. Former President, Board of Directors, Windsor Charter Academy, Windsor, CO. Former Board Member, Weld County Legal Services. Teacher, AIMS Community College 2005-present , Greeley, CO. Board of Elders, Southgate Church, Fort Collins, CO.
- Education:
- Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vermont,
May, 1997
Juris Doctor
Honors: National Dean's List: 1994-95, 1995-96
Honors: American Jurisprudence Award: Criminal Law
Honors: Class Rank: Top 1/3. Focus of Specialized Course Work: Environmental Law
Law Review: Vermont Law Review, Notes Editor - University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, Colorado
Visiting Student Spring 1996 - Focus Water Law, Oil & Gas Law - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado,
May, 1994
B.A.
Major: History
- Published Works:
- Interstate Testimony by Child Protective Agency Workers in the Child Custody Context, 21 VT.L.Rev. 633, 1996
- Colorado Water Law for Non-Lawyers, University Press of Colorado, Anticipated Publication, Summer, 2008
- Representative Cases:
- Eagle Peak Farms, Ltd. v. Lost Creek Ground Water Management District, 7 P.3d 1006 (Colo. App. 1999)
- Upper Black Squirrel Creek Ground Water Management District v. Goss, 993 P.2d 1177 (Colo. 2000)
- In re Water Rights of Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, 147 P.3d 9 (Colo. 2006)
- Cherokee Metropolitan District v. Simpson, 148 P.3d 142 (Colo. 2006)
- Gallegos v. Colorado Ground Water Commission, 147 P.3d 30 (Colo. 2006)
- Application of Well Augmentation Subdistrict of Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, Colorado Division One Water Court (South Platte River) (2007)
- Classes/Seminars Taught:
- Teacher, AIMS Community College, Greeley, Colorado
- Professional Associations and Memberships:
- Colorado Bar Association
- Weld County Bar Association
- Outward Bound Graduate, Holy Cross Wilderness, Colorado, 1986 - Present
- Windsor Charter Academy, Windsor, Colorado
- Former President
- Windsor Charter Academy, Windsor, Colorado
- Board of Directors
- Weld County Legal Services
- Former Board Member
- Southgate Church, Fort Collins, Colorado
- Board of Elders
