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

Michael H. Berger

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Michael H. Berger 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

University of Colorado Boulder

Judicial Record

In our data, Berger authored 33 published opinions for the court (2014–2017), plus 1 dissent and 6 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Acosta (774 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. 40 of these were attributed to Berger 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. Acosta· Concurrence†	338 P.3d 472	774
2016	People v. Manyik†	383 P.3d 77	409
2015	People v. Serra†	2015 COA 130	343
2016	People ex rel. R.K.L.†	412 P.3d 827	337
2015	People v. Gee†	2015 COA 151	205
2015	People v. Mendenhall†	2015 COA 107	68
2015	Fisher v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.†	419 P.3d 985	55
2016	People v. Carr†	2016 COA 168	48
2016	People v. Relaford†	2016 COA 99	45
2014	People v. Newmiller†	338 P.3d 459	23
2014	People v. Paglione†	342 P.3d 552	19
2015	Williams v. Department of Public Safety· Concurrence†	2015 COA 180	15
2015	People v. Theus-Roberts· Concurrence†	378 P.3d 750	15
2015	People v. Montante†	351 P.3d 530	12
2014	People v. Cardenas· Concurrence†	338 P.3d 430	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 40 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 Michael H. Berger on?: Michael H. Berger is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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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).