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 2010 / Active

Monica Marquez

Chief Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Monica Marquez is a Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1969 · age 57
Tenure: Since 2010 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Marquez authored 54 published opinions for the court (2011–2017), plus 20 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: In re the Marriage of Cardona (908 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. 78 of these were attributed to Marquez 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	In re the Marriage of Cardona†	316 P.3d 626	908
2014	Finney v. People†	325 P.3d 1044	722
2017	Mosley v. People†	2017 CO 20	643
2016	People v. Penn†	379 P.3d 298	521
2012	People v. S.X.G.†	269 P.3d 735	364
2011	People v. Simon†	266 P.3d 1099	298
2011	Wood v. People	255 P.3d 1136	261
2015	In Re People v. Elmarr†	2015 CO 53	247
2015	Stackhouse v. People· Dissent†	2015 CO 48	222
2013	Allen v. People· Concurrence†	307 P.3d 1102	196
2013	People v. Gallegos· Concurrence†	307 P.3d 1096	189
2017	Nagi v. People· Dissent†	2017 CO 12	182
2017	Nicholls v. People†	2017 CO 71	99
2012	In re Attorney F.†	285 P.3d 322	65
2016	People v. Kutlak†	2016 CO 1	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 84 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 is Monica Marquez on?: Monica Marquez is a Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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15 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).