District Attorney Stanley L. Garnett was sworn into office on January 13, 2009.

Mr. Garnett was elected as the District Attorney for Boulder County in November, 2008.  Before he assumed the position of District Attorney, he was a trial lawyer for 22 years at the firm Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber and Schreck. Mr. Garnett specialized in complex litigation at the state and federal level, and has appeared before the United States Supreme Court, the 10th and 11th Circuit Courts of Appeal, the Colorado Appellate Courts and in state and federal trial courts across the United States.

District Attorney Garnett is a long-time Boulder resident. His father graduated from Boulder High School in 1943 and Mr. Garnett graduated from Fairview High School in 1974. He  then received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978 from the University of Colorado, graduating Phi Beta Kappa,  and his Juris Doctor degree in 1982 from the University of Colorado.  From 1982 to 1986, he was a Deputy District Attorney in the Denver District Attorney’s Office.  Mr. Garnett was elected in 1997 and 2001 to the Boulder Valley School Board, serving as president of the Board during his final term in that office.

Mr. Garnett is well-known in the legal community as a top-level trial lawyer, and has received a number of distinctions from the legal community during his years in private practice.