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 1988 / Served to 2008

Jose D.L. Marquez

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Jose D.L. Marquez was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1988–2008 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Judicial Record

In our data, Marquez authored 329 published opinions for the court (1988–2011), plus 10 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Levy-Wegrzyn v. Ediger (686 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. 90 of these were attributed to Marquez 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
1994	Levy-Wegrzyn v. Ediger	899 P.2d 230	686
2005	Duhon v. Nelson	126 P.3d 262	513
2001	Dyrkopp v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office· Dissent†	30 P.3d 821	505
2007	People ex rel. Z.P.†	167 P.3d 211	413
2003	In RE ESTATE OF BREEDEN v. Gelfond	87 P.3d 167	348
2002	People v. Darbe	62 P.3d 1006	346
1997	In re C.G.G.†	946 P.2d 603	306
1999	Vento v. Colorado National Bank	985 P.2d 48	243
2002	People v. Baird	66 P.3d 183	221
1991	Sheid v. Hewlett Packard	826 P.2d 396	201
2004	Heritage Village Owners Ass'n v. Golden Heritage Investors, Ltd.	89 P.3d 513	192
1990	People v. Taylor	804 P.2d 196	179
2006	Marriage of DeZalia v. DeZalia	151 P.3d 647	172
1997	Bellone v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office	940 P.2d 1116	76
2004	People v. Dunlap	124 P.3d 780	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 343 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 was Jose D.L. Marquez on?: Jose D.L. Marquez was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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19 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).