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 2003 / Served to 2012

Robert M. Russel

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Robert M. Russel was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2003–2012 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Northern Colorado
University of Colorado Boulder

Judicial Record

In our data, Russel authored 97 published opinions for the court (2004–2012), plus 12 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Castillo v. Koppes-Conway (1,524 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. 37 of these were attributed to Russel 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
2006	Castillo v. Koppes-Conway	148 P.3d 289	1,524
2009	People v. Griffin	224 P.3d 292	373
2010	People v. Vigil	251 P.3d 442	357
2008	People v. Jowell	199 P.3d 38	338
2005	People v. McGlotten	134 P.3d 487	333
2004	Lopez v. Montoya	109 P.3d 1021	322
2004	In re the Marriage of Haddad†	93 P.3d 617	305
2005	In Re the Marriage of Morehouse	121 P.3d 264	288
2011	Holley v. Huang†	284 P.3d 81	209
2006	Chapman v. Willey	134 P.3d 568	186
2008	Jenkins v. Haymore	208 P.3d 265	174
2009	People v. Kirk	221 P.3d 63	171
2004	WRWC, LLC v. City of Arvada	107 P.3d 1002	168
2005	People v. Isom	140 P.3d 100	120
2005	People v. Heredia· Dissent†	122 P.3d 1041	104

Showing the 15 most-cited of 113 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 Robert M. Russel on?: Robert M. Russel was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

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9 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).