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 2000 / Active

John Daniel Dailey

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

John Daniel Dailey is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: Since 2000 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Bucknell University
Syracuse University

Judicial Record

In our data, Dailey authored 246 published opinions for the court (2000–2017), plus 5 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Berra v. SPRINGER AND STEINBERG, PC (1,814 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. 100 of these were attributed to Dailey 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
2010	Berra v. SPRINGER AND STEINBERG, PC	251 P.3d 567	1,814
2006	People v. Kelling	151 P.3d 650	1,233
2010	In Re Marriage of Connerton and Nevin	260 P.3d 62	1,010
2016	People v. Faussett†	2016 COA 94	833
2002	People v. Clouse	74 P.3d 336	788
2011	In Re the Marriage of Davis	252 P.3d 530	760
2004	People v. James	117 P.3d 91	716
2015	People v. Weeks†	369 P.3d 699	688
2012	People v. Ujaama†	302 P.3d 296	685
2015	People v. Glover†	363 P.3d 736	652
2004	People v. Shreck	107 P.3d 1048	629
2009	People v. Rodriguez	209 P.3d 1151	612
2007	People v. McAfee	160 P.3d 277	581
2005	People v. Perea	126 P.3d 241	522
2017	O'Neil v. Conejos County Board of Commissioners†	2017 COA 30	512

Showing the 15 most-cited of 261 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 John Daniel Dailey on?: John Daniel Dailey is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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26 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).