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 1992 / Active

Daniel Marc Taubman

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Daniel Marc Taubman is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Tenure: Since 1992 · 33 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Taubman authored 508 published opinions for the court (1993–2017), plus 27 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Anaya (1,376 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. 197 of these were attributed to Taubman 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
1994	People v. Anaya	894 P.2d 28	1,376
2017	Kovac v. Farmers Insurance Exchange†	401 P.3d 112	1,212
2015	People v. Duran†	2015 COA 141	873
2002	In Re the Marriage of Martin	42 P.3d 75	871
2008	In Re Marriage of Rozzi· Concurrence†	190 P.3d 815	861
2004	In Re State Ex Rel. MC	94 P.3d 1220	819
2013	In re the Marriage of Krejci· Concurrence†	297 P.3d 1035	814
1997	In Re the Marriage of Bregar	952 P.2d 783	707
2014	People ex rel. K.J.B.†	342 P.3d 597	704
2010	People v. Strock	252 P.3d 1148	681
2013	People v. Hargrove†	338 P.3d 413	674
2006	People Ex Rel. K.L-P.	148 P.3d 402	653
1999	People v. Dore	997 P.2d 1214	616
2012	People v. Ramos†	396 P.3d 21	590
2005	People v. Smith	121 P.3d 243	544

Showing the 15 most-cited of 564 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 Daniel Marc Taubman on?: Daniel Marc Taubman is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

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33 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).