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 2006 / Active

Jerry N. Jones

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Jerry N. Jones is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1961 · age 65
Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Denver

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 134 published opinions for the court (2006–2018), plus 7 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Valentine v. Mountain States Mutual Casualty Co. (1,127 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. 82 of these were attributed to Jones 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
2011	Valentine v. Mountain States Mutual Casualty Co.	252 P.3d 1182	1,127
2007	People v. Banark	155 P.3d 609	599
2013	People v. Torrez· Dissent†	316 P.3d 25	550
2016	People v. Johnson· Concurrence†	381 P.3d 348	524
2012	Van Gundy v. Van Gundy†	292 P.3d 1201	432
2013	People v. Zadra†	396 P.3d 34	393
2012	In re the Marriage of Joel & Roohi†	404 P.3d 1251	374
2011	Martin v. Essrig†	277 P.3d 857	351
2009	Miller v. Brannon	207 P.3d 923	345
2014	Lawson v. Stow†	327 P.3d 340	334
2009	GOGNAT v. Ellsworth	224 P.3d 1039	333
2008	In Re the Marriage of Newell	192 P.3d 529	333
2014	Visible Voices, Inc. v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office†	328 P.3d 307	330
2010	Carruthers v. Carrier Access Corp.	251 P.3d 1199	300
2009	People v. Gallegos	226 P.3d 1112	275

Showing the 15 most-cited of 151 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 Jerry N. Jones on?: Jerry N. Jones is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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20 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).