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 1927 / Served to 1937

Charles C. Butler

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Charles C. Butler was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1927. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1865 · age 161
Tenure: 1927–1937 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1927	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Butler authored 338 published opinions for the court (1927–1936), plus 23 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: Collins v. Thuringer (205 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. 56 of these were attributed to Butler 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
1933	Collins v. Thuringer	21 P.2d 709	205
1931	Walker v. Staley	1 P.2d 924	170
1935	Rains v. Rains	46 P.2d 740	87
1933	Ingles v. People	22 P.2d 1109	69
1935	Johnson v. McDonald· Concurrence†	49 P.2d 1017	64
1931	Kolkman v. People· Dissent†	300 P. 575	50
1934	Reppin v. People	34 P.2d 71	48
1932	Sapero v. State Board of Medical Examiners· Concurrence†	11 P.2d 555	43
1930	City & County of Denver v. Taylor· Concurrence†	292 P. 594	40
1928	Central Surety & Insurance v. Industrial Commission	271 P. 617	36
1927	Osborn & Noakes v. People	262 P. 892	35
1927	Koontz v. the People	263 P. 19	34
1931	Ingles v. People	6 P.2d 455	32
1932	People Ex Rel. Hershey v. McNichols	13 P.2d 266	29
1935	Otis & Co. v. Grimes	48 P.2d 788	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 390 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 Charles C. Butler on?: Charles C. Butler was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).