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 1989 / Served to 2002

Edwin G. Ruland

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Edwin G. Ruland was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–2002 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Colorado College
Southern Methodist University

Judicial Record

In our data, Ruland authored 382 published opinions for the court (1973–2009), plus 14 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Hoisington (1,019 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. 99 of these were attributed to Ruland 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
1995	People v. Hoisington	902 P.2d 887	1,019
1997	Kidwell v. K-Mart Corp.	942 P.2d 1280	328
1991	In Re the Marriage of Mowrer	817 P.2d 612	305
1989	People v. Beasley	778 P.2d 304	168
1997	People v. Geyer	942 P.2d 1297	160
1980	People v. Sisneros	606 P.2d 1317	105
1992	Maul v. Shaw	843 P.2d 139	73
1996	In Re the Adoption of T.K.J.· Concurrence†	931 P.2d 488	48
1977	Zahtila v. Motor Vehicle Div., Dept. of Rev.	560 P.2d 847	46
1998	Support, Inc. v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office of the Colorado	968 P.2d 174	41
2001	People v. Kenny· Concurrence†	30 P.3d 734	33
1989	In Re the Marriage of Fields· Concurrence†	779 P.2d 1371	33
1974	Hildyard v. Western Fasteners, Inc.	522 P.2d 596	33
1976	People v. Sheperd	551 P.2d 210	31
1979	Gulf Insurance Co. v. State	607 P.2d 1016	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 406 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 Edwin G. Ruland on?: Edwin G. Ruland was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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13 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).