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

Raymond Dean Jones

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Raymond Dean Jones 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

Colorado College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 272 published opinions for the court (1988–2003), plus 26 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Bray (565 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. 117 of these were attributed to Jones 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
1991	People v. Bray†	819 P.2d 528	565
1992	Barr Lake Village Metropolitan District v. Colorado Water Quality Control Commission	835 P.2d 613	305
1997	In Re the Marriage of Elmer	936 P.2d 617	248
2002	In Re the Marriage of Tagen	62 P.3d 1092	183
2002	Quintana v. City of Westminster	56 P.3d 1193	179
1988	People v. Jenkins	768 P.2d 727	179
2002	Colburn v. Kopit	59 P.3d 295	172
1996	People v. Hanson	928 P.2d 776	69
1995	Tynan's Nissan, Inc. v. American Hardware Mutual Insurance Co.	917 P.2d 321	32
1988	Simmons v. Simmons	773 P.2d 602	32
2001	People v. James· Concurrence†	40 P.3d 36	30
2003	People v. McNeely	68 P.3d 540	29
1991	McCafferty v. Musat	817 P.2d 1039	29
2002	In Re the Marriage of Atencio· Concurrence†	47 P.3d 718	28
1989	Schlitters v. State	787 P.2d 656	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 313 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 Raymond Dean Jones on?: Raymond Dean Jones 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).