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 1937 / Served to 1947

Norris C. Bakke

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Norris C. Bakke was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1894–1973
Tenure: 1937–1947 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bakke authored 292 published opinions for the court (1937–1947), plus 15 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Bedford v. White (41 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. 24 of these were attributed to Bakke 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
1940	Bedford v. White	106 P.2d 469	41
1946	United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Local Union No. 55 v. Salter· Dissent†	167 P.2d 954	33
1940	City & County of Denver v. Lyttle	103 P.2d 1	28
1943	Brown v. Bradbury	135 P.2d 1013	27
1945	Mooney v. Carter· Dissent†	160 P.2d 390	26
1942	Hertz Driv-Ur-Self System, Inc. v. Hendrickson	121 P.2d 483	23
1940	Hill v. Hill	107 P.2d 597	23
1938	Bedford v. Hartman Brothers	89 P.2d 584	23
1939	People v. Harris· Concurrence†	91 P.2d 989	20
1944	Edwards v. Quackenbush· Dissent†	149 P.2d 809	19
1943	Kamp v. Disney	135 P.2d 1019	19
1938	Meyer v. Mercier	80 P.2d 332	18
1937	Marron v. Helmecke	67 P.2d 1034	18
1940	Coates v. People	106 P.2d 354	17
1939	Gutheil v. Polichio	86 P.2d 972	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 311 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 Norris C. Bakke on?: Norris C. Bakke was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).