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 1999 / Served to 2005

Henry H. Nieto

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Henry H. Nieto was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2005 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Nieto authored 100 published opinions for the court (2000–2010), plus 4 concurrences. Most cited: People ex rel. D.L.C. (776 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. 24 of these were attributed to Nieto 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. D.L.C.†	70 P.3d 584	776
2000	People v. Flagg	18 P.3d 792	302
2003	People v. Beatty	80 P.3d 847	206
2003	People v. Robson	80 P.3d 912	187
2003	Marriage of Martinez v. Gutierrez-Martinez	77 P.3d 827	171
2007	People v. Heimann	186 P.3d 77	162
2002	People v. Carrillo	70 P.3d 529	74
2003	Verrier v. Colorado Department of Corrections	77 P.3d 875	38
2004	People ex rel. S.G.†	91 P.3d 443	36
2004	People v. Allen	111 P.3d 518	32
2002	Leiting v. Mutha	58 P.3d 1049	28
2002	People v. Scialabba	55 P.3d 207	25
2001	Ovation Plumbing, Inc. v. Furton	33 P.3d 1221	25
2000	Miller v. ROWTECH, LLC	3 P.3d 492	24
2004	People v. Daley	97 P.3d 295	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 104 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 was Henry H. Nieto on?: Henry H. Nieto was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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6 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).