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 2009 / Active

Laurie Ann Booras

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Laurie Ann Booras is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Judicial Record

In our data, Booras authored 53 published opinions for the court (2009–2017), plus 4 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: In Re the Marriage of Wells (690 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. 49 of these were attributed to Booras 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
2011	In Re the Marriage of Wells	252 P.3d 1212	690
2012	People ex rel. R.D· Concurrence†	277 P.3d 889	329
2014	Marymee v. Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections†	328 P.3d 284	183
2016	People v. Lopez†	2016 COA 179	165
2014	Shigo, LLC v. Hocker· Dissent†	338 P.3d 421	164
2012	Andrew v. Teller County Board of Equalization†	284 P.3d 172	164
2010	In Re the Marriage of Hein	253 P.3d 636	164
2014	People v. Payne†	361 P.3d 1040	88
2011	People v. Zukowski	260 P.3d 339	67
2015	People v. Carter†	402 P.3d 480	63
2016	Acierno Ex Rel. Acierno v. Garyfallou†	2016 COA 91	23
2012	People v. Davis†	272 P.3d 1167	23
2009	Platt v. Aspenwood Condominium Ass'n, Inc.	214 P.3d 1060	23
2014	People v. Cisneros†	356 P.3d 877	20
2010	Humphrey v. Whole Foods Market Rocky Mountain/Southwest, L.P.	250 P.3d 706	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 61 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 Laurie Ann Booras on?: Laurie Ann Booras is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

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17 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).