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 1990 / Served to 2009

Sandra I. Rothenberg

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Sandra I. Rothenberg was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1990–2009 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Miami
University of Miami

Judicial Record

In our data, Rothenberg authored 346 published opinions for the court (1990–2011), plus 8 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: In re the Marriage of Salby (1,306 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. 92 of these were attributed to Rothenberg 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	In re the Marriage of Salby†	126 P.3d 291	1,306
2008	People v. Smith	183 P.3d 726	1,264
1992	People v. Pflugbeil	834 P.2d 843	1,012
2004	People v. Phillips	91 P.3d 476	679
2004	People v. Montoya†	104 P.3d 303	658
2001	In Re the Marriage of Burford	26 P.3d 550	561
2009	People v. Martinez	224 P.3d 1026	483
2001	People v. Bradley	25 P.3d 1271	347
2006	Levine v. Katz†	192 P.3d 1008	327
2005	In Re the Marriage of Hillstrom	126 P.3d 315	305
1994	Wells Fargo Realty Advisors Funding, Inc. v. Uioli, Inc.	872 P.2d 1359	228
1999	People v. Kriho	996 P.2d 158	207
2008	People ex rel. A.E.L.†	181 P.3d 1186	196
2001	People v. Green	36 P.3d 125	194
2000	People v. Gholston	26 P.3d 1	194

Showing the 15 most-cited of 368 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 Sandra I. Rothenberg on?: Sandra I. Rothenberg was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Sources

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18 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).