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 1965 / Served to 1967

Hilbert Schauer

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Hilbert Schauer was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1922 · age 104
Tenure: 1965–1967 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Southern Methodist University
University of Denver

Judicial Record

In our data, Schauer authored 44 published opinions for the court (1965–1967), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: Christmas v. Cooley (55 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. 19 of these were attributed to Schauer 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
1965	Christmas v. Cooley	406 P.2d 333	55
1965	Brown v. People	408 P.2d 981	31
1967	Berry's Coffee Shop, Inc. v. Palomba	423 P.2d 2	29
1965	Armijo v. People· Dissent†	402 P.2d 79	27
1966	Heron v. City and County of Denver	411 P.2d 314	23
1965	Raullerson v. People	404 P.2d 149	23
1966	Gilpin Investment Co. v. Perigo Mines Company	421 P.2d 477	15
1966	Torgan v. Torgan	410 P.2d 167	15
1965	Ruark v. People	406 P.2d 91	13
1966	Derby v. Police Pension and Relief Board	412 P.2d 897	12
1965	Tschudy v. Amos C. Sudler & Co.	407 P.2d 877	12
1965	Isbell v. People	405 P.2d 744	11
1967	Phillips v. Webster	426 P.2d 774	10
1966	Intermountain Rural Electric Ass'n v. District Court	414 P.2d 911	10
1966	Burr v. Green Bros. Sheet Metal, Inc.	409 P.2d 511	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 47 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 Hilbert Schauer on?: Hilbert Schauer was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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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).