Judge Silva was appointed to the bench by Governor John Hickenlooper on September 14, 2018 and took the bench on October 15, 2018.
Since 1999, Silva served as the managing attorney of the Pueblo office of Colorado Legal Services. Before that, he worked as an attorney with Pikes Peak Arkansas River Legal Aid, as Deputy District Attorney with the 16th Judicial District and as a staff attorney with Pueblo County Legal Services.
Silva earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1977 and his law degree from Cornell University in 1992.