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Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr. is a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, an historian, poet, and former water lawyer. He was a sixth grade teacher in New York City and served with his wife, Bobbie, in the Peace Corps in South America in the late 1960s before he became a water and environmental lawyer in the early 1970s. His wife, Bobbie, was a teacher and Director of Children’s Garden Montessori School in Denver for 31 years before retiring in 2005.

Justice Hobbs has authored a book of western water poetry and a book of essays about the people, environment, and water of the western United States. He has a great interest in all matters pertaining to the peoples of the Colorado and San Juan River watersheds.