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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1995 / Served to 2006

Rebecca Love Kourlis

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Rebecca Love Kourlis was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: 1995–2006 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–
1996	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kourlis authored 154 published opinions for the court (1995–2005), plus 49 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Miller (1,592 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. 215 of these were attributed to Kourlis 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
2005	People v. Miller†	113 P.3d 743	1,592
2005	Dempsey v. People†	117 P.3d 800	1,458
2000	E-470 Public Highway Authority v. 455 Co.· Dissent†	3 P.3d 18	611
2003	People v. Sepulveda†	65 P.3d 1002	568
1998	People v. Cobb· Dissent†	962 P.2d 944	539
2005	Robbins v. People†	107 P.3d 384	527
2005	Quintano v. People†	105 P.3d 585	502
2001	Flatiron Linen, Inc. v. First American State Bank†	23 P.3d 1209	498
1997	Bogdanov v. People†	941 P.2d 247	483
2000	N.A.H. v. S.L.S.†	9 P.3d 354	448
2003	Mata-Medina v. People†	71 P.3d 973	438
1998	DCB Construction Co. v. Central City Development Co.†	965 P.2d 115	273
1996	Colorado Permanente Medical Group, P.C. v. Evans†	926 P.2d 1218	248
2000	People v. Lefebre· Dissent†	5 P.3d 295	243
1999	Municipal Subdistrict, Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District v. Oxy USA, Inc.†	990 P.2d 701	241

Showing the 15 most-cited of 215 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 Rebecca Love Kourlis on?: Rebecca Love Kourlis 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).