Howard M. Kirshbaum (born September 19, 1938) was an associate justice of the

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from 1983 to 1997. He received an undergraduate degree from

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, and law degree from

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in 1965. While at Harvard Law School, he clerked for

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, who was then a judge of the

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. In 1975, he was appointed to the Denver District Court and in 1980 he was appointed to the

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by Governor Richard Lamm. Lamm elevated Kirshbaum to the state supreme court in 1983. After leaving the court, Kirshbaum became an arbitrator with the Denver-based Judicial Arbiter Group Inc.

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