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 1994 / Active

James S. Casebolt

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

James S. Casebolt is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1994 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Colorado College
University of Colorado Boulder

Judicial Record

In our data, Casebolt authored 323 published opinions for the court (1994–2017), plus 9 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Elie (1,020 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. 92 of these were attributed to Casebolt 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
2006	People v. Elie	148 P.3d 359	1,020
2015	People v. Clark†	370 P.3d 197	989
2014	People v. Conyac†	361 P.3d 1005	901
2014	People v. Acosta†	338 P.3d 472	774
2015	McDonald v. Zions First National Bank, N.A.†	348 P.3d 957	707
2009	People v. Clark	214 P.3d 531	698
2003	People v. Carrasco†	85 P.3d 580	687
2012	Banning v. Prester†	317 P.3d 1284	544
2011	People v. Fuentes	258 P.3d 320	514
2003	People v. Zuniga	80 P.3d 965	491
2002	People v. Thoro Products Co.	45 P.3d 737	460
2012	Schuessler v. Wolter†	310 P.3d 151	369
2004	People v. Hogan	114 P.3d 42	364
1999	People v. Merchant	983 P.2d 108	340
1994	Mission Viejo Co. v. Douglas County Board of Equalization	881 P.2d 462	339

Showing the 15 most-cited of 339 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 James S. Casebolt on?: James S. Casebolt is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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32 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).