DENVER — Gov. Hickenlooper on Thursday announced boards and commissions appointments, which included a current San Luis Valley resident and former Valley resident.

There is a judicial district nominating commission for each of Colorado’s 22 judicial districts that selects nominees for district and county judicial vacancies. Each district nominating commission is chaired by a justice of the Supreme Court, who is a non-voting member of the commission. The governor appointed Terrance Clayton Wetherill of Creede, to serve as a non-attorney and as a Republican from Mineral County on the Twelfth Judicial District nominating commission. The term will expire Dec. 31, 2023.

The Colorado Student Leaders Institute Executive Board oversees the Colorado Student Leaders Institute. The Institute operates a competitive residential summer academic pilot program through the summer of 2019 for students who are entering tenth or eleventh grade in the coming fall semester. Students attend four weeks of college level classes, lectures and seminars, as well as enrichment activities, including concerts and theatrical productions.

The governor appointed Jenifer Louise Hufman of Dolores, a former Valley resident, to serve as a person employed as an educator in a high school in a rural district, and occasioned by the resignation of Tonya Covarrubias of Brighton. This term expires expiring July 7 of this year. However, the governor reappointed Hufman to serve as a person employed as an educator in a high school in a rural district for a term expiring July 7, 2020.