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 1947 / Served to 1951

Frank L. Hays

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Frank L. Hays was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1889 · age 137
Tenure: 1947–1951 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Creighton University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hays authored 93 published opinions for the court (1947–1951), plus 8 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Wright v. People (42 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. 21 of these were attributed to Hays 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
1947	Wright v. People	181 P.2d 447	42
1948	Routa v. People†	117 Colo. 564	37
1949	Jones v. Board of Adjustment· Dissent†	204 P.2d 560	32
1949	Read v. People	205 P.2d 233	28
1947	Shier v. People	181 P.2d 366	23
1950	Sauers v. Stolz	218 P.2d 741	22
1947	Wilson v. Ross Investment Company· Dissent†	180 P.2d 226	22
1949	Garcia v. People†	121 Colo. 130	21
1948	Post v. City of Grand Junction	195 P.2d 958	21
1950	Sherberg v. First Nat. Bank of Englewood	222 P.2d 782	19
1947	Roper v. People	179 P.2d 232	19
1949	Berman v. City & County of Denver	209 P.2d 754	18
1950	Old Timers Baseball Ass'n v. Housing Authority	224 P.2d 219	17
1950	Cross v. People	223 P.2d 202	17
1950	United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Industrial Commission	219 P.2d 315	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 102 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 L. Hays on?: Frank L. Hays was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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4 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).