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 1952 / Served to 1957

George H. Bradfield

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

George H. Bradfield was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1952. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1880 · age 146
Tenure: 1952–1957 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1952	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Denver

Judicial Record

In our data, Bradfield authored 31 published opinions for the court (1953–1956), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Maercklein v. Smith (25 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. 9 of these were attributed to Bradfield 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
1954	Maercklein v. Smith· Dissent†	266 P.2d 1095	25
1953	Gordon v. Clotsworthy	257 P.2d 410	22
1956	Bustamante v. People	297 P.2d 538	21
1953	Di Salle v. Giggal	261 P.2d 499	17
1954	Graham v. Graham	274 P.2d 605	16
1955	McLauthlin v. the City and County of Denver†	280 P.2d 1103	15
1954	Petition of Martensen	267 P.2d 658	15
1954	City & County of Denver v. People Ex Rel. Public Utilities Commission	266 P.2d 1105	15
1955	Union Oil Company of California v. Lindauer	280 P.2d 444	11
1953	Platte Valley Elevators Co. v. Gebauer	256 P.2d 903	11
1956	Jackson v. Bates	293 P.2d 962	10
1955	Suttle v. Sullivan	283 P.2d 636	10
1956	Morris v. Diers	298 P.2d 957	9
1955	Teets v. Richardson	284 P.2d 233	8
1954	Hadden v. Gateway West Publishing Co.	273 P.2d 733	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 32 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 George H. Bradfield on?: George H. Bradfield was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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5 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).