[4][5] After law school, she clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then for Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1996 to 1997.
[7][8] In March 2015, Justice Gregory J. Hobbs Jr. announced that he would retire effective from September 1, 2015.
[9] The Colorado Judicial Nominating Commission nominated professor Hart along with state Court of Appeals judge Richard L. Gabriel and El Paso County District Court judge David Prince as possible candidates to replace Hobbs.
[10] Governor John Hickenlooper announced Gabriel as his choice to replace Hobbs on June 23, 2015.
John Hickenlooper named Hart as an associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.