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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1996 / Former Justice

Gregory J. Hobbs Jr.

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Gregory J. Hobbs Jr. was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Tenure: 1996 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hobbs authored 283 published opinions for the court (1996–2023), plus 34 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: People Ex Rel. J.R.T. v. Martinez (1,964 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. 171 of these were attributed to Hobbs 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
2003	People Ex Rel. J.R.T. v. Martinez	70 P.3d 474	1,964
2005	Lopez v. People	113 P.3d 713	1,102
2010	Bly v. Story	241 P.3d 529	1,094
2011	SANCHEZ-MARTINEZ v. People	250 P.3d 1248	1,043
2008	Golob v. People	180 P.3d 1006	954
2011	Denver Post Corp. v. Ritter†	255 P.3d 1083	787
1997	People v. Coria	937 P.2d 386	609
2004	People v. Melendez†	102 P.3d 315	591
2002	Benton v. Adams†	56 P.3d 81	557
2008	School District No. 12 v. Security Life of Denver Insurance Co.· Dissent†	185 P.3d 781	489
2004	Cassels v. People	92 P.3d 951	475
2008	Freedom Colorado Information, Inc. v. El Paso County Sheriff's Department†	196 P.3d 892	474
2010	Clark v. People	232 P.3d 1287	409
2012	Kazadi v. People†	291 P.3d 16	405
2012	Montez v. People†	269 P.3d 1228	343

Showing the 15 most-cited of 332 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 Gregory J. Hobbs Jr. on?: Gregory J. Hobbs Jr. was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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30 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).