James Stow Witwer

James S. Witwer is of counsel at Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale College, and he earned his J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1989, where he served as articles editor of the University of Colorado Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Mr. Witwer represents municipal, business, and agricultural clients in the areas of water rights, eminent domain, public lands, and environmental law. He is author of “The Renewal of Authorizations to Divert Water on National Forests,” 24 Colo. Law. 2363 (Oct. 1995); co-author of “Statutory and Rule Changes to Water Court Practice,” 38 Colo. Law. 53 (June 2009); co-author of “Whose Water? Meeting New Federal Demands for Water in Prior Appropriation States,” 50 Rocky Mtn Min. L. Inst. § 22 (2004); and co-author of Acquiring, Using and Protecting Water in Colorado (Bradford Publishing 2011). He is the former chair of the Agricultural and Rural Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association and serves on the Colorado Supreme Court’s Water Court Committee. 2/18