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 1969 / Served to 1983

Robert B. Lee

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Robert B. Lee was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1912–1988
Tenure: 1969–1983 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

DePauw University

Judicial Record

In our data, Lee authored 564 published opinions for the court (1967–1983), plus 21 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Adair v. People (519 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. 194 of these were attributed to Lee 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
1982	Adair v. People	651 P.2d 389	519
1970	Rugg v. McCarty	476 P.2d 753	374
1973	Pomeroy v. Waitkus	517 P.2d 396	192
1982	First National Bank of Denver v. District Court Ex Rel. the City & County of Denver	652 P.2d 613	181
1976	Hiigel v. General Motors Corporation· Dissent†	544 P.2d 983	177
1969	Saucerman v. Saucerman	461 P.2d 18	177
1974	People v. Wilkie	522 P.2d 727	168
1981	Converse v. Zinke	635 P.2d 882	153
1978	Union Supply Co. v. Pust	583 P.2d 276	138
1973	Harding v. Industrial Commission	515 P.2d 95	135
1975	People v. Blue	544 P.2d 385	126
1978	In Re Marriage of Graham	574 P.2d 75	123
1972	Davidson v. Dill	503 P.2d 157	105
1976	Weissman v. Board of Ed. of Jefferson Cty. Sch. Dist.	547 P.2d 1267	92
1978	People v. Sepeda	581 P.2d 723	87

Showing the 15 most-cited of 590 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 Robert B. Lee on?: Robert B. Lee was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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13 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).