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 1949

George A. Luxford

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

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

Born: 1876 · age 150
Tenure: 1947–1949 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Luxford authored 40 published opinions for the court (1946–1948). Most cited: Sandoval v. People (14 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 Luxford 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
1948	Sandoval v. People	192 P.2d 423	14
1947	Zlaten v. Zlaten	186 P.2d 583	13
1947	Brofman v. Industrial Commission	186 P.2d 584	13
1947	Gallegos v. People	179 P.2d 272	13
1947	McCowan v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States	179 P.2d 275	12
1948	Frazier v. Edwards	190 P.2d 126	11
1948	Pillod v. People	200 P.2d 919	9
1947	Goff v. Boma Investment Co.	181 P.2d 459	9
1948	Jones v. Jones	188 P.2d 892	8
1947	People v. Anderson	187 P.2d 934	8
1948	Nicklis v. Nakano	195 P.2d 723	7
1948	Zook v. Zook	195 P.2d 387	7
1948	Johansen v. Schuettig	195 P.2d 725	7
1947	Winbern v. People†	116 Colo. 136	7
1948	Amos v. Remington Arms Co.	188 P.2d 896	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 40 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 A. Luxford on?: George A. Luxford was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

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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).