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 1997

George E. Lohr

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

George E. Lohr was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1931 · age 95
Tenure: 1947–1997 · 50 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–
1947	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lohr authored 441 published opinions for the court (1980–1997), plus 82 dissents and 82 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Rodriguez (1,618 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. 271 of these were attributed to Lohr 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
1996	People v. Rodriguez· Dissent†	914 P.2d 230	1,618
1990	People v. Spoto†	795 P.2d 1314	1,098
1993	People v. Wiedemer	852 P.2d 424	1,008
1986	Tevlin v. People· Dissent†	715 P.2d 338	972
1982	People v. Constant· Concurrence†	645 P.2d 843	845
1988	In the Interest of Clinton†	762 P.2d 1381	844
1989	Jet Courier Service, Inc. v. Mulei	771 P.2d 486	677
1981	In re the Marriage of Stroud†	631 P.2d 168	570
1984	People v. Curtis†	681 P.2d 504	530
1990	Board of Assessment Appeals of State v. E.E. Sonnenberg & Sons, Inc.	797 P.2d 27	524
1981	People v. Adler	629 P.2d 569	515
1982	People v. Raffaelli†	647 P.2d 230	487
1985	Schubert v. People· Concurrence†	698 P.2d 788	452
1993	D.A.S. v. People· Dissent†	863 P.2d 291	426
1989	People v. Zapata· Concurrence†	779 P.2d 1307	422

Showing the 15 most-cited of 605 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 E. Lohr on?: George E. Lohr was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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50 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).