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 1915 / Served to 1925

James H. Teller

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

James H. Teller was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1915. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1850–1925
Tenure: 1915–1925 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1915	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Teller authored 460 published opinions for the court (1915–1925), plus 19 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Milheim v. Moffat Tunnel Improvement District (57 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. 467 of these were attributed to Teller 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
1922	Milheim v. Moffat Tunnel Improvement District†	72 Colo. 268	57
1919	City & County of Denver v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.· Concurrence†	67 Colo. 225	52
1924	Town of Holyoke v. Smith†	75 Colo. 286	47
1916	People v. Pitcher· Dissent†	61 Colo. 149	44
1920	Board of County Commissioners v. Adler†	69 Colo. 290	38
1922	Baker v. Denver Tramway Co.†	72 Colo. 233	32
1917	Horton v. Colorado Springs Masonic Building Society· Dissent†	64 Colo. 529	32
1924	Sarno v. People†	74 Colo. 528	31
1924	Westesen v. Olathe State Bank†	75 Colo. 340	28
1923	McFerson v. National Surety Co.†	72 Colo. 482	28
1915	Headley v. Denver & Rio Grande Railroad· Dissent†	60 Colo. 500	28
1924	DeFord v. New York Life Insurance†	75 Colo. 146	27
1921	Altitude Oil Co. v. People†	70 Colo. 452	27
1922	Industrial Commission v. Pueblo Auto Co.†	71 Colo. 424	26
1923	Big Five Mining Co. v. Left Hand Ditch Co.†	73 Colo. 545	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 488 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 H. Teller on?: James H. Teller was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).