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 1913 / Served to 1923

Tully Scott

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Tully Scott was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1913. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1913–1923 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1913	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Scott authored 206 published opinions for the court (1913–1921), plus 14 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: City & County of Denver v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. (52 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. 219 of these were attributed to Scott 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
1919	City & County of Denver v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.· Dissent†	67 Colo. 225	52
1920	Mulligan v. People†	68 Colo. 17	46
1916	Van Kleeck v. Ramer· Dissent†	62 Colo. 4	45
1920	Prouse v. Industrial Commission· Dissent†	69 Colo. 382	42
1918	Industrial Commission v. Aetna Life Insurance Company	174 P.3d 589	30
1914	Lord v. City & County of Denver†	58 Colo. 1	29
1920	Hoover v. Shott†	68 Colo. 385	25
1919	People v. Field†	66 Colo. 367	24
1915	Ward v. Teller Reservoir & Irrigation Co.†	60 Colo. 47	24
1914	Denver Horse Importing Co. v. Schafer†	58 Colo. 376	24
1917	Stelson v. Haigler†	63 Colo. 200	23
1916	Payne v. Williams	160 P. 196	21
1914	Ponder v. Altura Farms Co.†	57 Colo. 519	21
1914	Catlett v. Colorado & Southern Railway Co.†	56 Colo. 463	21
1914	North Sterling Irrigation District v. Dickman· Dissent†	59 Colo. 169	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 222 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 Tully Scott on?: Tully Scott 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).