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 / Served to 1988

David W. Enoch

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

David W. Enoch was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–2008
Tenure: 1970–1988 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Colorado Boulder

Judicial Record

In our data, Enoch authored 417 published opinions for the court (1970–1992), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: People v. Hardman (585 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. 82 of these were attributed to Enoch 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	People v. Hardman	653 P.2d 763	585
1978	Bosworth Data Services, Inc. v. Gloss	587 P.2d 1201	523
1972	Mercantile Bank & Trust Co. v. Hunter	501 P.2d 486	515
1970	American National Bank of Denver v. Etter	476 P.2d 287	325
1972	Cole v. Angerman	501 P.2d 136	323
1982	People v. Clay†	644 P.2d 81	181
1975	McNeill v. Allen	534 P.2d 813	48
1987	Krane v. Saint Anthony Hospital Systems	738 P.2d 75	38
1977	Russell v. First Am. Mtg. Co.	565 P.2d 972	34
1974	Justice v. Stanley Aviation Corporation	530 P.2d 984	34
1973	Zambruk v. Perlmutter 3rd Generation Builders, Inc.	510 P.2d 472	33
1982	People v. Anderson	649 P.2d 720	31
1975	City of Delta v. Thompson	548 P.2d 1292	29
1977	In Re Marriage of Wildin	563 P.2d 384	28
1982	American Television & Communications Corp. v. Manning	651 P.2d 440	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 419 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 David W. Enoch on?: David W. Enoch was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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18 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).