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 1988 / Served to 2003

Claus J. Hume

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Claus J. Hume was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1988–2003 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Colorado Boulder

Judicial Record

In our data, Hume authored 302 published opinions for the court (1988–2005), plus 3 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Goldman (1,167 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. 86 of these were attributed to Hume 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
1996	People v. Goldman	923 P.2d 374	1,167
1993	In Re the Marriage of Simon	856 P.2d 47	380
1997	In Re the Marriage of Speirs	956 P.2d 622	348
2001	People v. Jensen	55 P.3d 135	338
1996	Everett v. Dickinson & Co., Inc.	929 P.2d 10	336
1998	In Re the Marriage of Garst	955 P.2d 1056	302
1992	Western Cities Broadcasting, Inc. v. Schueller	830 P.2d 1074	179
1996	FCC Construction, Inc. v. Casino Creek Holdings, Ltd.	916 P.2d 1196	176
1999	In Re the Marriage of Riley-Cunningham	7 P.3d 992	160
1995	Country Squire Kennels v. Tarshis· Concurrence†	899 P.2d 362	78
1996	Kuziel v. Pet Fair, Inc.†	931 P.2d 521	77
1994	Hansen v. GAB Business Services, Inc.	876 P.2d 112	50
2004	People v. Simpson	93 P.3d 551	46
1990	Berger v. Security Pacific Information Systems, Inc.	795 P.2d 1380	42
1991	Rodriguez Ex Rel. Rodriguez v. Safeco Insurance Co. of America	821 P.2d 849	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 309 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 Claus J. Hume on?: Claus J. Hume was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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15 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).