Claudia J. Jordan

Honorable Claudia J. Jordan (born 1953) is a retired judge in Colorado. Jordan was the first Black female judge in the Rocky Mountain region, seated in 1994. She retired in 2014.

Claudia Jean Jordan grew up in North Carolina, raised by her grandparents in a sharecropping family. Many adults had only an elementary level education, and Jordan heard the adults around her talking about how they needed a good lawyer. She became the kid in the neighborhood who read legal documents to neighbors who could not read. She attended segregated schools until 10th grade. in political science in 1975. Jordan was only one of three Black students and the only Black woman in her law school class at the University of Colorado School of Law. She graduated in 1980,

Jordan retired in 2014 after 20 years on the bench. Mayor Michael Hancock recognized her work by proclaiming September 30 as Claudia Jordan Day. 2011, Colorado Women's Bar Association Judicial Reception Honoree 1998, Colorado Women's Bar Association Mary Lathrop Trailblazer Award 1996, Blacks in Colorado Hall of Fame