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 1981 / Served to 1993

Dale Tursi

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Dale Tursi was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1981–1993 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Georgetown University
Drake University

Judicial Record

In our data, Tursi authored 392 published opinions for the court (1981–1999), plus 59 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Marriage of Hoffman (861 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. 216 of these were attributed to Tursi 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
1982	In Re Marriage of Hoffman	650 P.2d 1344	861
1985	People v. Fordyce†	705 P.2d 8	678
1992	In Re the Marriage of Rieger	827 P.2d 625	515
1984	People ex rel. K.M.J.†	698 P.2d 1380	510
1985	Hartman v. Watters†	711 P.2d 1287	506
1999	Nguyen v. Regional Transportation District	987 P.2d 933	319
1998	In Re the Marriage of Banning	971 P.2d 289	313
1981	People v. Bueno	626 P.2d 1167	217
1983	Soon Yee Scott v. City of Englewood	672 P.2d 225	193
1993	People v. Mortensen†	856 P.2d 45	95
1986	People v. Alderman· Dissent†	720 P.2d 1000	76
1985	Gjovig v. Spino· Concurrence†	701 P.2d 1267	51
1982	Heller v. First National Bank of Denver, N.A.	657 P.2d 992	50
1988	In Re the Marriage of Van Inwegen	757 P.2d 1118	46
1988	Jardel Enterprises, Inc. v. Triconsultants, Inc.	770 P.2d 1301	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 473 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 Dale Tursi on?: Dale Tursi was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

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12 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).