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 2006 / Active

Diana Terry

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Diana Terry is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1956 · age 70
Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Judicial Record

In our data, Terry authored 84 published opinions for the court (2006–2019), plus 5 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Leewaye v. IND. CLAIM APPEALS OFFICE OF STATE (504 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. 61 of these were attributed to Terry 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
2007	Leewaye v. IND. CLAIM APPEALS OFFICE OF STATE· Concurrence†	178 P.3d 1254	504
2007	People v. Baker	178 P.3d 1225	433
2009	Madison Capital Co. v. Star Acquisition VIII	214 P.3d 557	355
2008	Long View Systems Corp. USA v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office	197 P.3d 295	335
2015	McClure v. JP Morgan Chase Bank NA†	2015 COA 117	321
2008	Vogan v. County of San Diego	193 P.3d 336	300
2013	Fidelity National Title Co. v. First American Title Insurance Co.†	310 P.3d 272	200
2010	People v. Thornton	251 P.3d 1147	178
2008	Safeway, Inc. v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office	186 P.3d 103	93
2011	People v. Davis†	280 P.3d 51	85
2011	Adams v. Corrections Corp. of America· Concurrence†	264 P.3d 640	60
2009	McCallum Family L.L.C. v. Winger	221 P.3d 69	31
2007	Fishman v. Kotts	179 P.3d 232	28
2014	Top Rail Ranch Estates, LLC v. Walker†	327 P.3d 321	27
2007	Phoenix Capital, Inc. v. Dowell· Concurrence†	176 P.3d 835	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 96 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 Diana Terry on?: Diana Terry is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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20 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).