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 2013 / Active

Anthony J. Navarro

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Anthony J. Navarro is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Colorado Boulder
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Navarro authored 21 published opinions for the court (2013–2019). Most cited: Ackerman v. City and County of Denver (180 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. 21 of these were attributed to Navarro 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	Ackerman v. City and County of Denver†	2015 COA 96	180
2014	Department of Veterans Affairs v. Borf, N.A.†	343 P.3d 1072	166
2014	People v. Morales†	356 P.3d 972	16
2014	Wainscott v. Centura Health Corp.†	351 P.3d 513	13
2016	People v. Man Hao Luong†	378 P.3d 843	12
2014	Expedia, Inc. v. City & County of Denver†	405 P.3d 251	10
2016	People v. Lucero†	2016 COA 105	9
2013	People v. Dinkel†	321 P.3d 569	9
2015	Auxier v. McDonald†	363 P.3d 747	8
2016	GEICO Casualty Co. v. Collins†	371 P.3d 729	7
2015	People v. Parks†	2015 COA 158	6
2016	Rome v. Mandel†	405 P.3d 387	5
2016	Berges v. County Court of Douglas County†	2016 COA 146	5
2015	People v. Anderson†	348 P.3d 491	5
2016	People v. Janis†	441 P.3d 1	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 21 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 Anthony J. Navarro on?: Anthony J. Navarro is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

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13 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).