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 1968 / Served to 1980

James K. Groves

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

James K. Groves was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1910–1980
Tenure: 1968–1980 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Colorado Boulder
University of Colorado Boulder

Judicial Record

In our data, Groves authored 654 published opinions for the court (1968–1980), plus 65 dissents and 44 concurrences. Most cited: Page v. Clark (590 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. 424 of these were attributed to Groves 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	Page v. Clark· Concurrence†	592 P.2d 792	590
1971	Stone v. People	485 P.2d 495	207
1977	People v. Baca· Concurrence†	562 P.2d 411	206
1976	Hiigel v. General Motors Corporation	544 P.2d 983	177
1975	People v. CALVAREST	534 P.2d 316	174
1973	Green v. CASTLE CONCRETE COMPANY· Concurrence†	509 P.2d 588	171
1973	Kinoshita v. North Denver Bank†	508 P.2d 1264	170
1975	Walker v. Colorado Springs Sun, Inc.	538 P.2d 450	87
1971	People v. Moreno· Concurrence†	491 P.2d 575	76
1976	Ellis v. Ellis	552 P.2d 506	74
1975	Hunter v. District Ct. in & for Twentieth Jud. Dist.· Dissent†	543 P.2d 1265	74
1977	Lamm v. Barber· Concurrence†	565 P.2d 538	73
1975	Van Schaack & Co. v. District Court, Eighteenth JD· Dissent†	538 P.2d 425	71
1969	McDonald v. Lakewood Country Club	461 P.2d 437	63
1968	Fellhauer v. People†	167 Colo. 320	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 763 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 James K. Groves on?: James K. Groves was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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11 years 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).