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 1956 / Served to 1968

Leonard v. B. Sutton

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Leonard v. B. Sutton was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–2002
Tenure: 1956–1968 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Colorado College
University of Denver

Judicial Record

In our data, Sutton authored 456 published opinions for the court (1956–1968), plus 21 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Fink v. Montgomery Elevator Company of Colorado (358 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. 217 of these were attributed to Sutton 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
1966	Fink v. Montgomery Elevator Company of Colorado	421 P.2d 735	358
1961	Madrid v. People	365 P.2d 39	329
1966	Bolger v. Dial-A-Style Leasing Corporation	409 P.2d 517	187
1962	May Stores Shopping Centers, Inc. v. Shoemaker	376 P.2d 679	183
1963	Wagner v. Fairlamb	379 P.2d 165	93
1958	City and County of Denver v. Sweet	329 P.2d 441	70
1967	Mason v. Celina Mutual Insurance Company	423 P.2d 24	69
1959	Radke v. Union Pacific Railroad Company	334 P.2d 1077	67
1958	Leick v. People· Dissent†	322 P.2d 674	67
1959	Lucas v. District Court· Dissent†	345 P.2d 1064	60
1959	Holly Development, Inc. v. Board of County Commissioners	342 P.2d 1032	51
1957	Ace Flying Service, Inc. v. Colorado Department of Agriculture	314 P.2d 278	51
1957	Industrial Commission v. Havens	314 P.2d 698	48
1957	Vanadium Corporation of America v. Sargent	307 P.2d 454	48
1962	Four-County Metropolitan Capital Improvement District v. Board of County Commissioners· Concurrence†	369 P.2d 67	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 491 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 Leonard v. B. Sutton on?: Leonard v. B. Sutton was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 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).