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 1895 / Served to 1937

John Campbell

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

John Campbell was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court (7 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1895. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1853–1938
Tenure: 1895–1937 · 42 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1895	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Campbell authored 1,047 published opinions for the court (1895–1936), plus 24 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Supperstein v. Woods (329 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. 684 of these were attributed to Campbell 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
1933	Supperstein v. Woods	40 P.2d 622	329
1911	Empire Ranch & Cattle Co. v. Coldren· Dissent†	51 Colo. 115	120
1895	Denver Consolidated Electric Co. v. Simpson†	21 Colo. 371	56
1899	Ames v. People ex rel. Temple†	26 Colo. 83	53
1896	Boykin v. People†	22 Colo. 496	53
1895	Grant v. Varney†	21 Colo. 329	45
1895	New Mercer Ditch Co. v. Armstrong†	21 Colo. 357	42
1925	City & County of Denver v. Tihen	235 P. 777	41
1905	Fort Lyon Canal Co. v. Chew†	33 Colo. 392	39
1905	Johnson v. People†	33 Colo. 224	38
1923	People ex rel. Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet & Irrigated Land Co. v. Burke†	72 Colo. 486	37
1927	Mulcahy v. Johnson	252 P. 816	36
1900	In re the Estate of Shell†	28 Colo. 167	36
1923	Colorado & Southern Railway Co. v. Western Light & Power Co.†	73 Colo. 107	35
1896	Ritchey v. People†	23 Colo. 314	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,077 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 John Campbell on?: John Campbell was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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42 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).