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 2013

Russell Carparelli

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

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

Tenure: 2003–2013 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

United States Air Force Academy
University of Denver

Judicial Record

In our data, Carparelli authored 86 published opinions for the court (2003–2013), plus 4 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Walters (631 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. 25 of these were attributed to Carparelli 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	People v. Walters	148 P.3d 331	631
2004	People v. Huerta†	87 P.3d 266	583
2010	In Re the Parental Responsibilities of Reese	227 P.3d 900	560
2013	Yotes, Inc. v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office†	310 P.3d 288	484
2003	People v. Gilmore	97 P.3d 123	339
2008	Affordable Country Homes, LLC v. Smith	194 P.3d 511	324
2006	In re the Marriage of Dauwe†	148 P.3d 282	301
2006	BOARD OF COUNTY COM'RS OF SAN MIGUEL v. Roberts	159 P.3d 800	180
2004	People v. Banuelos-Landa	109 P.3d 1039	169
2006	Premier Farm Credit, PCA v. W-CATTLE, LLC· Concurrence†	155 P.3d 504	63
2004	People v. Petschow	119 P.3d 495	41
2009	Fischbach v. Holzberlein	215 P.3d 407	30
2003	People v. Martinez	83 P.3d 1174	30
2012	Loveland Essential Group, LLC v. Grommon Farms, Inc.· Concurrence†	318 P.3d 6	28
2008	People v. Tixier	207 P.3d 844	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 94 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 Russell Carparelli on?: Russell Carparelli was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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10 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).