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

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

Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1997 / Served to 2011

Alex J. Martinez

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Alex J. Martinez was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1951 · age 75
Tenure: 1997–2011 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Martinez authored 206 published opinions for the court (1997–2011), plus 53 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Domingo-Gomez v. People (1,816 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. 125 of these were attributed to Martinez 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
2005	Domingo-Gomez v. People	125 P.3d 1043	1,816
2006	K.D. v. People	139 P.3d 695	1,407
2010	People v. Bergerud	223 P.3d 686	1,379
2002	Close v. People†	48 P.3d 528	1,325
2007	People v. Ramirez	155 P.3d 371	883
2010	Martinez v. People	244 P.3d 135	767
2002	People v. Deroulet	48 P.3d 520	701
2011	Qwest Services Corp. v. Blood†	252 P.3d 1071	694
2003	People v. Martinez	74 P.3d 316	688
2009	Villanueva v. People	199 P.3d 1228	580
2002	Horton v. Suthers	43 P.3d 611	579
1999	Todd v. Bear Valley Village Apartments· Concurrence†	980 P.2d 973	568
2000	People v. McCullough· Concurrence†	6 P.3d 774	552
2009	Carmichael v. People	206 P.3d 800	551
2010	DeBELLA v. People	233 P.3d 664	542

Showing the 15 most-cited of 275 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 Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Alex J. Martinez on?: Alex J. Martinez was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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