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

William A. Hill

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

William A. Hill was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1909. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1909–1919 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1909	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hill authored 251 published opinions for the court (1909–1919), plus 13 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Nelson v. Chittenden (62 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. 265 of these were attributed to Hill 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
1912	Nelson v. Chittenden†	53 Colo. 30	62
1914	People ex rel. Colorado Tax Commission v. Pitcher· Dissent†	56 Colo. 343	47
1909	Middelkamp v. Bessemer Irrigating Co.†	46 Colo. 102	44
1913	Colorado Mortgage & Investment Co. v. Giacomini†	55 Colo. 540	35
1917	Horton v. Colorado Springs Masonic Building Society†	64 Colo. 529	32
1913	People ex rel. Moore v. Perkins†	56 Colo. 17	27
1914	Johnson v. New York Life Insurance†	56 Colo. 178	26
1916	United States Portland Cement Co. v. United States National Bank†	61 Colo. 334	23
1914	Imperial Securities Co. v. Morris†	57 Colo. 194	23
1916	Thomas v. Patterson†	61 Colo. 547	22
1917	Korf v. Itten†	64 Colo. 3	21
1911	Denver City Tramway Co. v. Kennedy†	50 Colo. 418	21
1913	In re German Ditch & Reservoir Co.†	56 Colo. 252	20
1909	Board of County Commissioners v. Lunney†	46 Colo. 403	20
1910	Baird v. Baird†	48 Colo. 506	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 266 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 A. Hill on?: William A. Hill was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

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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).