Samuel H. Cassidy

{{short description|American politician}}

{{distinguish|Samuel J. Cassidy}}

{{use mdy dates|date=May 2021}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Samuel H. Cassidy

|order = 43rd

|office = Lieutenant Governor of Colorado

|term_start = May 11, 1994

|term_end = January 3, 1995

|predecessor = Mike Callihan

|successor = Gail Schoettler

|governor = Roy Romer

|state_senate2 = Colorado

|district2 = 6th

|term_start2 = 1991

|term_end2 = 1994

|predecessor2 = Robert E. DeNier

|successor2 = Ben Alexander

|office3 = Minority Leader of the Colorado Senate

|minority_leader3 =

|term_start3 = 1993

|term_end3 = 1994

|predecessor3 = Larry Trujillo

|successor3 = Mike Feeley

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|01|16}}

|birth_place = Shreveport, LA

|party = Democratic

|alma_mater = University of Oklahoma
University of Tulsa

|occupation = Attorney

|nationality = American

|website =

|footnotes = {{cite web |url=https://trellis.law/judge/samuel.h.cassidy |title=Judge Samuel H. Cassidy: Professional background and legal expertise |author= |date=2024 |website=Trellis |publisher= |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240522114407/https://trellis.law/judge/samuel.h.cassidy |archive-date=May 22, 2024 |access-date=May 22, 2024 |quote=}}

}}

Samuel H. Cassidy (born January 16, 1950) is an attorney and was a professor at the University of Denver from 2000 to 2015, where he taught law and ethics. Following his retirement from the University of Denver, he served as a county judge in Archuleta County, Colorado from 2015 to 2016. He was the 43rd Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, serving from 1994 to 1995 under Roy Romer. Before taking that office, he served as a Colorado State Senator from 1991 to 1994 and was the minority leader of the Senate for two years.{{cite web|url=http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/offic/ltgov.html#Cassidy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030820151150/http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/offic/ltgov.html#Cassidy |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 20, 2003 |title=Lieutenant Governors of Colorado 1877-2003 |accessdate=2009-05-09 |publisher=Colorado State Archives }}

Cassidy was president and CEO of the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry from 1998 until 2000.

Cassidy earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1972 and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 1975.{{cite news |date=August 28, 2014 |title=Gov. Hickenlooper Appoints County Court Judge for Archuleta County |url=https://www.colorado.gov/governor/news/gov-hickenlooper-appoints-county-court-judge-archuleta-county |work=Colorado: Official State Web Portal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222052709/https://www.colorado.gov/governor/news/gov-hickenlooper-appoints-county-court-judge-archuleta-county |archive-date=2017-12-22 }}