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 1988 / Served to 2013

Janice B. Davidson

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Janice B. Davidson was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1988–2013 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Skidmore College
University of Pennsylvania

Judicial Record

In our data, Davidson authored 484 published opinions for the court (1990–2013), plus 5 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Estes (933 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. 114 of these were attributed to Davidson 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
2012	People v. Estes†	296 P.3d 189	933
1996	Guevara v. Foxhoven	928 P.2d 793	832
2005	People ex rel. C.M.†	116 P.3d 1278	538
2004	People v. Harper†	111 P.3d 482	514
2003	People v. Barber	74 P.3d 444	512
1995	Estate of Hays ex rel. Hays v. Mid-Century Insurance Co.†	902 P.2d 956	512
2007	People v. Walton	167 P.3d 163	348
2000	Sandoval v. Archdiocese of Denver	8 P.3d 598	344
2004	In Re the Marriage of Rivera	91 P.3d 464	341
1999	People v. Esquivel-Alaniz	985 P.2d 22	337
2001	Singh v. Mortensun	30 P.3d 853	329
1997	People Ex Rel. R.L.H.	942 P.2d 1386	308
2010	In Re the Marriage of Barker	251 P.3d 591	287
2000	People v. Barnard	12 P.3d 290	220
2000	Robinson v. City and County of Denver· Concurrence†	30 P.3d 677	208

Showing the 15 most-cited of 496 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 Janice B. Davidson on?: Janice B. Davidson was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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25 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).