How do judges of the Colorado Court of Appeals reach the bench?

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

Colorado Court of Appeals / Joined 1970 / Active

Harry S. Silverstein Jr.

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Harry S. Silverstein Jr. is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1970 · 56 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Silverstein authored 179 published opinions for the court (1970–1991). Most cited: Dennett v. Mt. Harvard Development Co. (174 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. 48 of these were attributed to Silverstein 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
1979	Dennett v. Mt. Harvard Development Co.	604 P.2d 699	174
1970	Behlen Mfg. Co. v. First National Bank of Englewood	472 P.2d 703	34
1978	BOARD OF CTY. COM'RS, ETC. v. Berkeley Village	580 P.2d 1251	27
1973	Christian v. Randall	516 P.2d 132	22
1977	In Re Marriage of Lowery	568 P.2d 103	21
1971	Kirkham v. Hickerson Bros. Truck Co.	485 P.2d 513	20
1979	In Re the Marriage of Stokes	608 P.2d 824	19
1978	Burchinal v. Gregory	586 P.2d 1012	19
1977	Ciancio v. Serafini	574 P.2d 876	19
1973	Eugene Cervi & Co. v. Russell	506 P.2d 748	18
1976	HYLAND HILLS. ETC. v. McCoy Enterprises, Inc.	554 P.2d 708	17
1991	People v. Miller	829 P.2d 443	15
1988	Parrish v. Rocky Mountain Hospital & Medical Services Co.†	754 P.2d 1180	15
1979	In Re the Marriage of Camarata	602 P.2d 907	15
1979	Matter of Estate of Brooks	596 P.2d 1220	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 179 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 Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court is Harry S. Silverstein Jr. on?: Harry S. Silverstein Jr. is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

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56 years on the Colorado Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).