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 2008 / Active

David Jay Richman

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

David Jay Richman is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Richman authored 68 published opinions for the court (2008–2018), plus 2 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Newell (678 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. 49 of these were attributed to Richman 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
2017	People v. Newell†	2017 COA 27	678
2008	In Re the Marriage of Ensminger	209 P.3d 1163	627
2009	Blood v. Qwest Services Corp.· Concurrence†	224 P.3d 301	360
2011	Table Services, Ltd. v. Hickenlooper	257 P.3d 1210	331
2010	People v. Reeves	252 P.3d 1137	322
2009	Koh v. Kumar	207 P.3d 900	316
2016	Ravenstar LLC v. One Ski Hill Place LLC†	2016 COA 11	190
2013	People v. Bueno· Concurrence†	411 P.3d 62	175
2008	People v. Tucker†	194 P.3d 503	174
2014	People v. Brown†	360 P.3d 167	92
2014	People v. Omwanda†	338 P.3d 1145	69
2009	US Fax Law Center, Inc. v. Henry Schein, Inc.	205 P.3d 512	33
2009	People v. Tucker	232 P.3d 194	25
2014	Armed Forces Bank, N.A. v. Hicks†	365 P.3d 378	23
2016	People v. Sena†	2015 COA 161	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 76 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 David Jay Richman on?: David Jay Richman is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

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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).