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 1983 / Served to 2003

Karen Metzger

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Karen Metzger was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Tenure: 1983–2003 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Colorado College
University of Denver

Judicial Record

In our data, Metzger authored 478 published opinions for the court (1983–2008), plus 21 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Gyurman v. Weld County Board of Equalization (858 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. 173 of these were attributed to Metzger 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
1993	Gyurman v. Weld County Board of Equalization	851 P.2d 307	858
1985	Club Valencia Homeowners Ass'n v. Valencia Associates	712 P.2d 1024	562
1992	Casserly v. State	844 P.2d 1275	513
2002	In Re the Marriage of Mitchell	55 P.3d 183	490
1992	People ex rel. O.J.S.†	844 P.2d 1230	412
1987	People in Interest of SB	742 P.2d 935	364
1992	People v. Baca	852 P.2d 1302	342
1986	Rent-A-Mom v. INDUSTRIAL COM'N, STATE OF COLO.	727 P.2d 403	336
1994	Simon v. Coppola· Concurrence†	876 P.2d 10	329
1991	People v. Weed	830 P.2d 1095	329
1987	People in Interest of CT	746 P.2d 56	327
2002	Pike v. American States Preferred Insurance Co.	55 P.3d 212	317
1991	People v. Fell· Concurrence†	832 P.2d 1015	219
2008	Dubray v. Intertribal Bison Cooperative	192 P.3d 604	212
1991	People v. Harvey†	819 P.2d 1087	169

Showing the 15 most-cited of 509 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 Karen Metzger on?: Karen Metzger was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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20 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).