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 1993 / Served to 2000

Gregory K. Scott

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Gregory K. Scott was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: 1993–2000 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Scott authored 94 published opinions for the court (1993–2000), plus 30 dissents and 32 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. 87 of these were attributed to Scott 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· Concurrence†	914 P.2d 230	1,618
1996	Amoco Oil Co. v. Ervin	908 P.2d 493	844
1998	People v. Cobb	962 P.2d 944	539
1994	Christensen v. People	869 P.2d 1256	507
1997	Fair v. Red Lion Inn	943 P.2d 431	347
1999	Bebo Construction Co. v. Mattox & O'Brien, P.C.· Concurrence†	990 P.2d 78	307
2000	State v. Nieto†	993 P.2d 493	276
1998	People v. Paynter	955 P.2d 68	224
1995	Aspen Wilderness Workshop, Inc. v. Colorado Water Conservation Board†	901 P.2d 1251	222
1994	People v. Willner· Dissent†	879 P.2d 19	186
1998	Hall v. Walter· Dissent†	969 P.2d 224	147
1995	Fogg v. MacAluso· Concurrence†	892 P.2d 271	146
1994	Key v. People· Concurrence†	865 P.2d 822	144
1999	People v. Villapando	984 P.2d 51	130
1999	People v. Janes· Concurrence†	982 P.2d 300	109

Showing the 15 most-cited of 156 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 K. Scott on?: Gregory K. Scott was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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7 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).