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 2013 / Active

Karen M. Ashby

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Karen M. Ashby is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Williams College
University of Denver

Judicial Record

In our data, Ashby authored 21 published opinions for the court (2014–2018). Most cited: Mackall v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (22 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. 21 of these were attributed to Ashby 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
2014	Mackall v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.†	356 P.3d 946	22
2016	McGill v. DIA Airport Parking, LLC†	2016 COA 165	21
2015	Monell v. Cherokee River, Inc.†	347 P.3d 1179	16
2015	Laughman v. Girtakovskis†	2015 COA 143	11
2014	People v. Pifer†	350 P.3d 936	11
2017	Begley v. Ireson†	399 P.3d 777	10
2015	Tubbs v. Farmers Insurance Exchange†	353 P.3d 924	8
2015	People v. Harris†	370 P.3d 231	8
2014	People ex rel. J.G.†	409 P.3d 403	7
2014	People v. Aryee†	356 P.3d 918	6
2016	People v.†	417 P.3d 843	5
2014	People v. Stidham†	338 P.3d 504	4
2014	People ex rel. Marquardt†	369 P.3d 653	4
2014	People v. Bridges†	410 P.3d 512	3
2018	Prospect Dev. Co. v. Holland & Knight, LLP†	433 P.3d 146	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 21 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 is Karen M. Ashby on?: Karen M. Ashby is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

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12 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).