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 2002 / Active

Dennis Graham

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Dennis Graham is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: Since 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Graham authored 185 published opinions for the court (2002–2017), plus 5 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: People ex rel. A.M.K. (967 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. 81 of these were attributed to Graham 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
2003	People ex rel. A.M.K.†	68 P.3d 563	967
2009	People v. Villa	240 P.3d 343	861
2010	Bruce v. City of Colorado Springs	252 P.3d 30	611
2007	People v. Osorio	170 P.3d 796	582
2015	People v. Pendleton†	2015 COA 154	520
2006	Belfor USA Group, Inc. v. Rocky Mountain Caulking & Waterproofing, LLC	159 P.3d 672	514
2004	People v. Wallace	97 P.3d 262	417
2010	People v. Davis†	312 P.3d 193	362
2014	People v. Schupper†	353 P.3d 880	339
2007	In Re the Marriage of DePalma	176 P.3d 829	283
2007	Ringquist v. Wall Custom Homes, LLC	176 P.3d 846	228
2012	People v. Aguilar†	317 P.3d 1255	208
2008	Moffett v. Life Care Centers of America	187 P.3d 1140	195
2015	People v. Dobler†	369 P.3d 686	180
2013	People v. Bueno†	411 P.3d 62	175

Showing the 15 most-cited of 197 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 Dennis Graham on?: Dennis Graham is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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24 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).