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 1988 / Served to 2003

Peter H. Ney

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Peter H. Ney was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1988–2003 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Denver

Judicial Record

In our data, Ney authored 341 published opinions for the court (1988–2011), plus 15 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: In Re the Marriage of Balanson (734 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. 131 of these were attributed to Ney 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
2004	In Re the Marriage of Balanson	107 P.3d 1037	734
2000	Quintana v. City of Westminster	8 P.3d 527	684
1999	Wright v. Woller†	976 P.2d 902	641
2001	Dyrkopp v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office	30 P.3d 821	505
1990	Hendricks v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office	809 P.2d 1076	339
1995	One Hour Cleaners v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office	914 P.2d 501	228
1988	Maddalone v. C.D.C., Inc.	765 P.2d 1047	179
2001	People v. Pineda-Eriza	49 P.3d 329	177
1990	In Re the Marriage of Lester	791 P.2d 1244	176
1991	Westrac, Inc. v. Walker Field, Colorado, Public Airport Authority	812 P.2d 714	60
1991	University National Bank v. Rhoadarmer	827 P.2d 561	53
1996	People in Interest of AE· Concurrence†	914 P.2d 534	40
2001	People v. Stephenson	56 P.3d 1112	32
1991	Henderson v. RSI, INC.	824 P.2d 91	32
1995	Flagstaff Enterprises Construction, Inc. v. Snow	908 P.2d 1183	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 361 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 was Peter H. Ney on?: Peter H. Ney was 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).