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 1994 / Served to 2012

Arthur P. Roy

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Arthur P. Roy was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1994–2012 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Iowa State University
University of Colorado Boulder

Judicial Record

In our data, Roy authored 336 published opinions for the court (1994–2012), plus 18 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Avila (747 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. 104 of these were attributed to Roy 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
1997	People v. Avila	944 P.2d 673	747
1995	People v. Mendez	897 P.2d 868	738
2006	In Re the Marriage of Yates	148 P.3d 304	709
2009	In Re the Marriage of Powell	220 P.3d 952	675
1998	In Re the Marriage of McNamara	962 P.2d 330	672
2003	In Re the Marriage of Lewis	66 P.3d 204	634
2006	People v. Finley	141 P.3d 911	585
2002	Hytken v. Wake	68 P.3d 508	519
1996	People v. Talley	934 P.2d 859	513
2000	Flatiron Linen, Inc. v. First American State Bank	1 P.3d 244	507
2002	People v. Warren· Concurrence†	55 P.3d 809	355
1998	Murphy v. Glenn	964 P.2d 581	336
2001	Singh v. Mortensun· Concurrence†	30 P.3d 853	329
1996	Collins v. Scott	943 P.2d 20	326
2004	People v. Weinreich	98 P.3d 920	236

Showing the 15 most-cited of 369 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 was Arthur P. Roy on?: Arthur P. Roy was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

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18 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).