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 1909 / Served to 1919

Sebastian H. White

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Sebastian H. White was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1909. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1864–1945
Tenure: 1909–1919 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1909	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, White authored 155 published opinions for the court (1909–1919), plus 10 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Wilson v. Mitchell (70 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. 169 of these were attributed to White 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
1910	Wilson v. Mitchell†	48 Colo. 454	70
1919	City & County of Denver v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.†	67 Colo. 225	52
1914	People ex rel. Colorado Tax Commission v. Pitcher†	56 Colo. 343	47
1916	Van Kleeck v. Ramer· Concurrence†	62 Colo. 4	45
1916	People v. Pitcher†	61 Colo. 149	44
1909	Barclay v. London Guarantee & Accident Co.†	46 Colo. 558	38
1914	Oles v. Wilson†	57 Colo. 246	37
1909	Freudenthal v. Espey†	45 Colo. 488	36
1911	Londoner v. City & County of Denver†	52 Colo. 15	35
1917	First National Bank v. Patterson†	65 Colo. 166	33
1911	Hallett v. Alexander	114 P. 490	32
1909	Denver City Tramway Co. v. Wright†	47 Colo. 366	31
1912	Mauff v. People· Concurrence†	52 Colo. 562	29
1915	Headley v. Denver & Rio Grande Railroad†	60 Colo. 500	28
1913	People ex rel. Moore v. Perkins· Dissent†	56 Colo. 17	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 171 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 Sebastian H. White on?: Sebastian H. White was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).