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 1959 / Served to 1961

William Edward Doyle

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

William Edward Doyle was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1959. He earned a law degree from George Washington University in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1911–1986
Tenure: 1959–1961 · 2 yrs
Education: University of Colorado Boulder 1940 · George Washington

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

George Washington University	LL.B.	1937
University of Colorado Boulder	A.B.	1940

Judicial Record

In our data, Doyle authored 39 published opinions for the court (1959–1961), plus 23 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Stull v. People (237 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. 70 of these were attributed to Doyle 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
1959	Stull v. People· Dissent†	140 Colo. 278	237
1959	Lucas v. District Court†	345 P.2d 1064	60
1959	Davis v. City and County of Denver†	342 P.2d 674	40
1959	People v. Yoshio Futamata†	343 P.2d 1058	37
1959	Police Pension & Relief Board v. McPhail†	139 Colo. 330	37
1960	City and County of Denver v. Denver Buick, Inc.· Dissent†	347 P.2d 919	33
1960	Early v. People†	352 P.2d 112	31
1960	Hook v. Lakeside Park Company†	351 P.2d 261	30
1960	St. Luke's Hospital v. Industrial Commission· Dissent†	349 P.2d 995	30
1961	Tower v. Tower· Dissent†	364 P.2d 565	28
1960	Liber v. Flor· Dissent†	353 P.2d 590	26
1961	Robinoff v. District Court†	360 P.2d 114	23
1960	Colorado Anti-Discrimination Commission v. Continental Air Lines, Inc.· Concurrence†	355 P.2d 83	23
1960	Public Utilities Commission v. Colorado Interstate Gas Co.· Dissent†	351 P.2d 241	22
1960	Coffman v. Godsoe†	351 P.2d 808	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 70 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 William Edward Doyle on?: William Edward Doyle was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

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2 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).