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 1905 / Served to 1907

Julius C. Gunter

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Julius C. Gunter was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court (7 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1905. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1858 · age 168
Tenure: 1905–1907 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1905	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gunter authored 48 published opinions for the court (1905–1906), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Mitchell v. Titus (26 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. 50 of these were attributed to Gunter 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
1905	Mitchell v. Titus†	33 Colo. 385	26
1906	People ex rel. Attorney General v. News-Times Publishing Co.†	35 Colo. 253	25
1906	Hartman v. Tresise· Concurrence†	36 Colo. 146	20
1906	Mortgage Trust Co. of Pennsylvania v. Redd†	38 Colo. 458	19
1905	McConathy v. Deck†	34 Colo. 461	15
1906	Virden v. Hubbard†	37 Colo. 37	13
1906	Walsh v. Henry†	38 Colo. 393	9
1906	Best v. Rocky Mountain National Bank†	37 Colo. 149	9
1906	Denver & Rio Grande Railroad v. Burchard†	35 Colo. 539	9
1906	O'Donnell v. Chamberlin†	36 Colo. 395	9
1906	People Ex Rel. Colorado Bar Ass'n v. Thomas	91 P. 36	8
1906	City of Colorado Springs v. Board of County Commissioners†	36 Colo. 231	8
1905	People ex rel. Stidger v. Horan· Dissent†	34 Colo. 304	8
1906	Fulton Irrigation Ditch Co. v. Meadow Island Irrigation Co.†	35 Colo. 588	7
1906	Squire v. Livezey†	36 Colo. 302	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 51 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 Julius C. Gunter on?: Julius C. Gunter was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

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2 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).