How do judges of the Colorado Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1961 / Served to 1979

Edward E. Pringle

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Edward E. Pringle was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–2002
Tenure: 1961–1979 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Colorado Boulder

Judicial Record

In our data, Pringle authored 805 published opinions for the court (1961–1979), plus 48 dissents and 31 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Prante (686 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. 385 of these were attributed to Pringle 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
1972	People v. Prante	493 P.2d 1083	686
1979	Strickland v. People	594 P.2d 578	526
1973	People v. Bennett· Concurrence†	183 Colo. 125	521
1971	Furer v. Allied Steel Co.	483 P.2d 212	331
1975	People v. Penno	534 P.2d 795	321
1975	People v. Lobato	530 P.2d 493	198
1977	Rocky Mountain Ass'n of Credit Management v. District Court	565 P.2d 1345	194
1967	Von Pickrell v. People	431 P.2d 1003	194
1973	Green v. CASTLE CONCRETE COMPANY· Dissent†	509 P.2d 588	171
1975	People v. Barker†	189 Colo. 148	159
1974	People v. Rivera· Dissent†	525 P.2d 431	136
1973	First National Bank in Fort Collins v. Rostek	514 P.2d 314	98
1969	Brooks v. Zabka	450 P.2d 653	96
1966	Robles v. People	417 P.2d 232	88
1963	Hernandez v. People	385 P.2d 996	85

Showing the 15 most-cited of 884 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 Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Edward E. Pringle on?: Edward E. Pringle was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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17 years on the Colorado Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).