Frederick Yarger, '07, Appointed Colorado's Solicitor General

In her first act as Colorado’s 38th Attorney General, Cynthia Coffman today met with Department of Law staff to announce her senior cabinet appointments.

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Solicitor General: Effective April 1, 2015, Frederick Yarger will succeed Daniel Domenico as Colorado’s solicitor general. The solicitor general is responsible for supervising and determining legal strategy for criminal and civil appeals, as well as select constitutional litigation, handled by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. He is also responsible for reviewing and approving proposed regulations from client agencies, supervising the office’s deputy and assistant solicitors general and approving special assistant attorney general appointments. From 2012 through 2013, Yarger was the office’s assistant solicitor general, working directly with Domenico to oversee the office’s appellate and constitutional practice. Yarger previously served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Mark Filip of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and for Judge Timothy Tymkovich of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. Yarger earned a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was elected to the order of the coif. He received his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College.