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 2011 / Active

Maria Teresa Fox

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Maria Teresa Fox is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fox authored 52 published opinions for the court (2011–2017), plus 2 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Calderon (522 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. 54 of these were attributed to Fox 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	People v. Calderon†	356 P.3d 993	522
2016	Laleh v. Johnson†	2016 COA 4	446
2012	People v. Casias· Dissent†	312 P.3d 208	359
2017	EnCana Oil & Gas (USA), Inc. v. Miller†	2017 COA 112	168
2014	Shigo, LLC v. Hocker†	338 P.3d 421	164
2011	Hamill v. CHELEY COLORADO CAMPS, INC.	262 P.3d 945	27
2016	People v. Hardin†	2016 COA 175	24
2013	People v. Reed†	338 P.3d 364	21
2016	Grant Brothers Ranch, LLC v. Antero Resources Piceance Corp†	2016 COA 178	18
2012	People v. Williams†	297 P.3d 1011	18
2015	People ex rel. E.G.†	371 P.3d 693	14
2014	People v. Maestas†	343 P.3d 1038	14
2012	Hendricks v. Allied Waste Transportation, Inc.†	282 P.3d 520	14
2014	Long v. Cordain†	343 P.3d 1061	13
2013	Colorado Mining Ass'n v. Urbina· Concurrence†	318 P.3d 562	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 57 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 Maria Teresa Fox on?: Maria Teresa Fox is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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15 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).