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 1986 / Served to 1998

Anthony Vollack

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Anthony Vollack was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1929 · age 97
Tenure: 1986–1998 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Vollack authored 377 published opinions for the court (1986–1998), plus 106 dissents and 40 concurrences. Most cited: Tevlin v. People (972 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. 223 of these were attributed to Vollack 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
1986	Tevlin v. People	715 P.2d 338	972
1996	Amoco Oil Co. v. Ervin· Concurrence†	908 P.2d 493	844
1996	People v. Murphy	919 P.2d 191	710
1990	People v. District Court in & for First Judicial District, Jefferson County	785 P.2d 141	705
1986	People v. Hrapski	718 P.2d 1050	593
1987	Wilson v. People· Dissent†	743 P.2d 415	590
1994	People v. Hampton	876 P.2d 1236	578
1995	L.G. v. People	890 P.2d 647	571
1986	Lytle v. Kite†	728 P.2d 305	524
1987	Continental Air Lines, Inc. v. Keenan	731 P.2d 708	461
1994	Hock v. New York Life Insurance Co.	876 P.2d 1242	458
1995	Harris v. People· Concurrence†	888 P.2d 259	423
1991	People v. Garcia· Dissent†	815 P.2d 937	405
1988	People v. Chippewa· Dissent†	751 P.2d 607	369
1986	People v. Collins	730 P.2d 293	355

Showing the 15 most-cited of 523 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 Anthony Vollack on?: Anthony Vollack was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 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).