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 1925 / Served to 1935

John T. Adams

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

John T. Adams was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1925. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1925–1935 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1925	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Adams authored 221 published opinions for the court (1925–1934), plus 7 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Mystic Tailoring Co. v. Jacobstein (319 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. 15 of these were attributed to Adams 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
1934	Mystic Tailoring Co. v. Jacobstein	30 P.2d 263	319
1930	Abshier v. People	289 P. 1081	53
1931	Kolkman v. People· Concurrence†	300 P. 575	50
1932	State Board of Dental Examiners v. Savelle	8 P.2d 693	48
1932	Sapero v. State Board of Medical Examiners	11 P.2d 555	43
1927	Arps v. City & County of Denver	257 P. 1094	38
1926	Public Service Co. v. City of Loveland	245 P. 493	37
1929	People v. Texas Co.	275 P. 896	36
1927	Colby v. Board of Adjustment	255 P. 443	31
1934	Robinson v. Belmont-Buckingham Holding Co.	31 P.2d 918	29
1925	Enyart v. Orr	238 P. 29	29
1926	People v. Morgan	246 P. 1024	27
1927	Gertner v. Limon National Bank	257 P. 247	26
1932	Allen v. Bailey	14 P.2d 1087	24
1933	Faden v. Hubbell	28 P.2d 247	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 235 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 T. Adams on?: John T. Adams was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).