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 1970 / Active

Charles D. Pierce

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Charles D. Pierce is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1970 · 56 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pierce authored 739 published opinions for the court (1970–2005), plus 23 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: People v. Elagnaf (579 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. 214 of these were attributed to Pierce 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
1991	People v. Elagnaf†	829 P.2d 484	579
1992	Rosenberg v. Grady	843 P.2d 25	262
1978	Meiter v. Cavanaugh	580 P.2d 399	228
1994	People v. Graham	876 P.2d 68	183
1982	Baum v. S. S. Kresge Co.	646 P.2d 400	182
1987	People v. Trefethen	751 P.2d 657	171
1985	People v. Martinez†	705 P.2d 9	170
1993	Mulei v. Jet Courier Service, Inc.†	860 P.2d 569	169
1977	Rathburn v. Industrial Commission	566 P.2d 372	164
1973	Bradford v. Bendix-Westinghouse Auto. Air Brake Co.	517 P.2d 406	94
2000	Ajay Sports, Inc. v. Casazza	1 P.3d 267	78
1977	Kitto v. Gilbert	570 P.2d 544	73
1976	Kinard v. Coats Company, Inc.	553 P.2d 835	65
1971	Stauffer v. Karabin	492 P.2d 862	51
1985	People v. Koon	713 P.2d 410	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 763 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 is Charles D. Pierce on?: Charles D. Pierce is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

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56 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).