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 2011 / Active

Brian Boatright

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Brian Boatright is a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1980 · age 46
Tenure: Since 2011 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Boatright authored 54 published opinions for the court (2012–2019), plus 11 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Martinez v. People (1,172 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. 69 of these were attributed to Boatright 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	Martinez v. People†	2015 CO 16	1,172
2014	In re the Marriage of Cardona· Concurrence†	316 P.3d 626	908
2018	Norton v. Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, Inc.· Dissent†	2018 CO 3	863
2013	Bedor v. Johnson· Dissent†	292 P.3d 924	818
2017	Venalonzo v. People†	388 P.3d 868	792
2017	People v. Ramos· Dissent†	388 P.3d 888	655
2014	People v. Brown†	322 P.3d 214	544
2014	Lepage v. People†	320 P.3d 348	536
2017	Marsh v. People†	389 P.3d 100	530
2012	People v. Salazar†	272 P.3d 1067	376
2014	Industrial Claim Appeals Office v. Softrock Geological Services, Inc.†	325 P.3d 560	340
2013	A.M. v. A.C.†	296 P.3d 1026	315
2015	People v. Munoz-Gutierrez†	2015 CO 9	235
2017	Veith v. People†	2017 CO 19	221
2012	Willhite v. RODRIGUEZ-CERA	274 P.3d 1233	213

Showing the 15 most-cited of 71 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 is Brian Boatright on?: Brian Boatright is 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).