Judge Daniel S. Wilson graduated from Lewis Palmer High School in Monument, Colorado in 1978 and then from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 1982. He went on to law school at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln where he graduated in 1989.

Before being appointed to the County Court Bench in 2002, Judge Wilson worked in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona and Denver, Colorado for approximately four years. He then worked at the District Attorney's Office in the Fourth Judicial District for almost eight Years,

Judge Wilson's current caseload consists primarily of civil cases, and a criminal docket consisting of traffic and misdemeanor cases.