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 1923 / Served to 1928

John W. Sheafor

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

John W. Sheafor was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1923. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1923–1928 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1923	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sheafor authored 114 published opinions for the court (1923–1928). Most cited: City of Longmont v. Swearingen (35 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. 27 of these were attributed to Sheafor 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
1927	City of Longmont v. Swearingen	254 P. 1100	35
1926	Pomponio v. Larsen	251 P. 534	28
1926	Campion v. Eakle	246 P. 280	28
1925	Eachus v. People	236 P. 1009	26
1926	White v. People	245 P. 349	20
1924	Sterling Loan & Investment Co. v. Litel†	75 Colo. 34	19
1923	Patton v. People†	74 Colo. 322	17
1923	Larson v. Long†	74 Colo. 152	17
1924	Goodfellow v. People†	75 Colo. 243	15
1927	Haymaker v. Windsor Reservoir & Canal Co.	254 P. 768	14
1924	Thompson v. Orchard State Bank	227 P. 827	14
1924	Antero & Lost Park Reservoir Co. v. Board of County Commissioners†	75 Colo. 131	14
1923	Officer v. New York Life Insurance†	73 Colo. 495	14
1925	May v. People	236 P. 1022	13
1926	Miller v. Miller	247 P. 567	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 114 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 W. Sheafor on?: John W. Sheafor was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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5 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).