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 2002 / Active

John R. Webb

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

John R. Webb is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota
University of Colorado Boulder

Judicial Record

In our data, Webb authored 232 published opinions for the court (2002–2018), plus 11 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: People ex rel. N.G. (1,229 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. 125 of these were attributed to Webb 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 ex rel. N.G.†	303 P.3d 1207	1,229
2005	People v. Lassek	122 P.3d 1029	1,047
2013	In re the Marriage of Krejci†	297 P.3d 1035	814
2012	People v. Ramos· Dissent†	396 P.3d 21	590
2013	People†	305 P.3d 414	554
2011	People ex rel. L.B.†	254 P.3d 1203	552
2005	People v. Smith· Concurrence†	121 P.3d 243	544
2017	People v. Valdez†	2017 COA 41	509
2016	Laleh v. Johnson· Concurrence†	2016 COA 4	446
2005	People v. Cevallos-Acosta	140 P.3d 116	376
2014	People v. Shifrin†	342 P.3d 506	363
2009	Blood v. Qwest Services Corp.	224 P.3d 301	360
2013	People ex rel. J.G.C.†	318 P.3d 576	353
2010	Maloney v. Brassfield	251 P.3d 1097	351
2010	Weize Co. v. Colorado Regional Construction, Inc.	251 P.3d 489	350

Showing the 15 most-cited of 264 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 R. Webb on?: John R. Webb is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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24 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).