How do judges of the Colorado Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Colorado Court of Appeals / Joined 2003 / Active

Alan M. Loeb

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Alan M. Loeb is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Loeb authored 153 published opinions for the court (2003–2017), plus 3 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Smalley (998 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 76 of these were attributed to Loeb by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2015	People v. Smalley†	2015 COA 140	998
2010	People v. Vondra	240 P.3d 493	867
2008	In Re Marriage of Rozzi	190 P.3d 815	861
2009	People v. Moore	226 P.3d 1076	693
2012	People v. Poe†	316 P.3d 13	555
2003	In Re the Marriage of Lafaye	89 P.3d 455	519
2007	Skyland Metropolitan District v. Mountain West Enterprise, LLC†	184 P.3d 106	515
2005	In re the Marriage of Goodbinder†	119 P.3d 584	440
2009	People v. Clendenin· Concurrence†	232 P.3d 210	350
2004	In re the Marriage of Roosa†	89 P.3d 524	343
2013	People v. Rainer†	412 P.3d 520	340
2004	Durdin v. Cheyenne Mountain Bank	98 P.3d 899	337
2015	Bedee v. American Medical Response of Colorado†	2015 COA 128	326
2006	People v. Bostic	148 P.3d 250	313
2005	People v. Tallwhiteman	124 P.3d 827	246

Showing the 15 most-cited of 156 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Colorado Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court is Alan M. Loeb on?: Alan M. Loeb is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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23 years on the Colorado Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).