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 2009 / Active

Gale T. Miller

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Gale T. Miller is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Augustana College

Judicial Record

In our data, Miller authored 51 published opinions for the court (2009–2016), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Brooks (340 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. 41 of these were attributed to Miller 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
2010	People v. Brooks	250 P.3d 771	340
2012	People v. Allman†	321 P.3d 557	249
2012	People v. Douglas†	296 P.3d 234	217
2013	Vista Ridge Master Home-Owners Ass'n v. Arcadia Holdings at Vista Ridge, LLC†	300 P.3d 1004	198
2010	People v. Warner	251 P.3d 556	177
2012	BSLNI, Inc. v. Russ T. Diamonds, Inc.†	293 P.3d 598	174
2013	People v. Smoots· Concurrence†	396 P.3d 53	57
2009	People v. Munsey	232 P.3d 113	47
2010	People v. O'Shaughnessy†	275 P.3d 687	25
2012	People v. Davis†	296 P.3d 219	24
2014	People v. Russell†	396 P.3d 71	20
2009	Baldwin v. Huber	223 P.3d 150	19
2011	Glover v. Innis	252 P.3d 1204	18
2015	Meister v. Stout†	353 P.3d 916	15
2011	Janicek v. Obsideo, LLC†	271 P.3d 1133	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 53 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 Gale T. Miller on?: Gale T. Miller is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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17 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).