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 2005 / Active

Robert D. Hawthorne

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Robert D. Hawthorne is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, serving since 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Hawthorne authored 95 published opinions for the court (2005–2017), plus 4 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Becker (687 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. 56 of these were attributed to Hawthorne 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
2014	People v. Becker†	347 P.3d 1168	687
2007	Kim v. Grover C. Coors Trust	179 P.3d 86	686
2009	People v. DESTRO	215 P.3d 1147	662
2012	Bittle v. Cam-Colorado, LLC†	318 P.3d 65	627
2007	Antolovich v. Brown Group Retail, Inc.	183 P.3d 582	624
2009	People v. Clendenin	232 P.3d 210	350
2012	In re the Parental Responsibilities of M.W.†	292 P.3d 1158	329
2005	Olson v. Hillside Community Church SBC	124 P.3d 874	326
2007	Wagner v. Grange Insurance Ass'n	166 P.3d 304	199
2011	People v. Durapau†	280 P.3d 42	178
2012	In re the Marriage of Beatty†	279 P.3d 1225	175
2014	Reisbeck, LLC v. Levis†	342 P.3d 603	170
2013	People v. Fair· Dissent†	312 P.3d 242	168
2010	Mahaney v. City of Englewood	226 P.3d 1214	131
2009	People v. Keene	226 P.3d 1140	83

Showing the 15 most-cited of 103 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 is Robert D. Hawthorne on?: Robert D. Hawthorne is a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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21 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).