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 1935 / Served to 1945

John C. Young

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

John C. Young was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1935–1945 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Young authored 198 published opinions for the court (1935–1945), plus 8 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Morrison v. Goodspeed (144 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. 17 of these were attributed to Young 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
1937	Morrison v. Goodspeed	68 P.2d 458	144
1936	Van DeVegt v. Board of County Commissioners	55 P.2d 703	68
1935	Johnson v. McDonald	49 P.2d 1017	64
1935	Millington v. Hiedloff	45 P.2d 937	43
1941	Riss & Co. v. Anderson	114 P.2d 278	42
1938	People Ex Rel. Albright v. Board of Trustees	82 P.2d 765	41
1942	Sandoval v. Industrial Commission	130 P.2d 930	36
1945	City of Denver v. Board of Commissioners	156 P.2d 101	31
1938	Smaldone v. People	88 P.2d 103	30
1943	Honda v. People	141 P.2d 178	28
1938	Roberts v. People	87 P.2d 251	28
1935	McGlone v. First Baptist Church	50 P.2d 547	28
1937	O. P. Skaggs Co. v. Nixon	72 P.2d 1102	27
1939	Board of Adjustment v. Handley	95 P.2d 823	26
1938	Independent Lumber Co. v. Leatherwood	79 P.2d 1052	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 215 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 C. Young on?: John C. Young 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).