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 2008 / Served to 2011

Sean Connelly

Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals

Sean Connelly was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1958 · age 68
Tenure: 2008–2011 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Colorado Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Fairfield University

Judicial Record

In our data, Connelly authored 44 published opinions for the court (2008–2010), plus 5 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Hardesty v. Pino (534 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. 21 of these were attributed to Connelly 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
2009	Hardesty v. Pino	222 P.3d 336	534
2009	People v. Oram· Concurrence†	217 P.3d 883	259
2010	People v. Chavez	240 P.3d 448	219
2010	Colorado Coffee Bean, LLC v. Peaberry Coffee Inc.· Concurrence†	251 P.3d 9	202
2009	Vitetta v. Corrigan	240 P.3d 322	178
2009	People v. Simon	219 P.3d 789	173
2010	People v. Brown	250 P.3d 679	168
2009	People v. McBride	228 P.3d 216	93
2010	Wycoff v. Grace Community Church of the Assemblies of God	251 P.3d 1260	49
2009	People v. Tuffo	209 P.3d 1226	36
2009	People v. Rubio	222 P.3d 355	29
2008	People v. Davis· Concurrence†	218 P.3d 718	24
2009	Meadow Homes Development Corp. v. Bowens	211 P.3d 743	22
2009	People v. Abdu	215 P.3d 1265	22
2009	Silva v. Wilcox· Dissent†	223 P.3d 127	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 58 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 Sean Connelly on?: Sean Connelly was a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals.

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3 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).