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 1942 / Served to 1944

Frank B. Goudy

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Frank B. Goudy was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1942. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1942–1944 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1942	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Goudy authored 21 published opinions for the court (1942–1944), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Knapp v. Post Printing & Publishing Co. (35 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. 2 of these were attributed to Goudy 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
1943	Knapp v. Post Printing & Publishing Co.	144 P.2d 981	35
1944	Davis v. People	150 P.2d 67	34
1943	Martinez v. People	137 P.2d 690	32
1943	Home Public Market v. Newrock	142 P.2d 272	23
1942	McWilliams v. McWilliams	132 P.2d 966	16
1943	Logan Irrigation District v. Holt	132 P.2d 530	13
1943	Rogers v. Green	137 P.2d 408	12
1943	Stanton v. Union Oil Co.	142 P.2d 285	11
1943	Wallick v. Eaton	134 P.2d 727	11
1943	Jaeckel v. Funk· Dissent†	138 P.2d 939	8
1942	Rand v. Industrial Commission	132 P.2d 784	8
1942	Emerick v. Emerick	129 P.2d 908	7
1943	Industrial Commission v. Parra· Dissent†	137 P.2d 405	6
1944	Fatur v. Huff	147 P.2d 477	5
1943	Gill v. Justice of the Peace Court No. 2	139 P.2d 271	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 23 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 Frank B. Goudy on?: Frank B. Goudy was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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2 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).