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

Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1955 / Served to 1956

Henry S. Lindsley

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Henry S. Lindsley was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1955–1956 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lindsley authored 12 published opinions for the court (1955–1956). Most cited: Simson v. Langholf (31 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. 3 of these were attributed to Lindsley 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
1956	Simson v. Langholf	293 P.2d 302	31
1955	Burenheide v. Wall	281 P.2d 1000	22
1955	Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Shupe	280 P.2d 1115	17
1955	People Ex Rel. Dunbar v. Fischer	287 P.2d 973	10
1955	Civil Service Commission v. Frazzini	287 P.2d 433	10
1955	Tongue Creek Orchard Co. v. Town of Orchard City	280 P.2d 426	7
1955	Hart v. Herzig	283 P.2d 177	2
1955	Kemper v. District Court†	131 Colo. 325	2
1955	Hartman v. Marshall†	131 Colo. 88	2
1955	Heckendorf v. Town of Littleton	286 P.2d 615	1
1955	Trujillo v. DISTRICT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF WELD	282 P.2d 703	1
1956	Frazzini v. City & County of Denver†	133 Colo. 98	0

Showing the 12 most-cited of 12 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 Henry S. Lindsley on?: Henry S. Lindsley was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

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1 year 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).