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 1967 / Served to 1987

Paul V. Hodges

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Paul V. Hodges was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1913 · age 113
Tenure: 1967–1987 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hodges authored 721 published opinions for the court (1967–1983), plus 8 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Rossmiller v. Romero (345 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. 279 of these were attributed to Hodges 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
1981	Rossmiller v. Romero	625 P.2d 1029	345
1982	In Re the Marriage of Faulkner	652 P.2d 572	286
1981	Morgan v. People	624 P.2d 1331	261
1982	Lujan v. Colorado State Board of Education	649 P.2d 1005	138
1979	Wood Bros. Homes, Inc. v. Walker Adjustment Bureau	601 P.2d 1369	119
1976	People v. McCrary	549 P.2d 1320	90
1981	People v. Chavez· Dissent†	621 P.2d 1362	80
1971	People v. Brethauer· Dissent†	482 P.2d 369	77
1980	Denver Urban Renewal Authority v. Byrne	618 P.2d 1374	75
1972	People v. Vinnola†	177 Colo. 405	71
1980	Nailor v. People	612 P.2d 79	70
1972	Howe v. People	496 P.2d 1040	64
1975	People v. Garcia	541 P.2d 687	62
1980	People v. Malacara	606 P.2d 1300	61
1970	Hampton v. People	465 P.2d 394	60

Showing the 15 most-cited of 730 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 Paul V. Hodges on?: Paul V. Hodges was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

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20 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).