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 2018 / Active

Carlos A. Samour Jr.

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Carlos A. Samour Jr. is a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, serving since 2018. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2018 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2018	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Samour authored 3 published opinions for the court (2018–2019), plus 5 dissents. Most cited: In re Fox v. Alfini (513 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. 8 of these were attributed to Samour 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
2018	In re Fox v. Alfini· Dissent†	2018 CO 94	513
2019	People v. McKnight· Dissent†	2019 CO 36	247
2018	Zapata v. People· Dissent†	2018 CO 82	44
2018	Casillas v. People· Dissent†	2018 CO 78	12
2018	People v. Bailey†	427 P.3d 821	8
2019	People v. Mazzarelli†	444 P.3d 301	2
2019	People v. Gadberry· Dissent†	2019 CO 37	1
2019	Sharrow v. People†	438 P.3d 730	1

Showing the 8 most-cited of 8 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 Carlos A. Samour Jr. on?: Carlos A. Samour Jr. is a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

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8 years on the Colorado Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).