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 2014 / Active

William W. Hood III

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

William W. Hood III is a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Syracuse University
University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Hood authored 54 published opinions for the court (2014–2019), plus 21 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: In re the Marriage of de Koning (2,038 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. 88 of these were attributed to Hood 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
2016	In re the Marriage of de Koning†	2016 CO 2	2,038
2015	Westin Operator, LLC v. Groh†	2015 CO 25	586
2016	Pinnacol Assurance v. Hoff†	2016 CO 53	520
2018	In re Fox v. Alfini· Concurrence†	2018 CO 94	513
2017	Ronquillo v. People†	404 P.3d 264	512
2019	Cardman v. People· Dissent†	2019 CO 73	412
2014	Nowak v. Suthers†	320 P.3d 340	341
2014	People v. Novotny· Concurrence†	320 P.3d 1194	288
2016	People v. Chavez-Barragan†	2016 CO 66	247
2015	People v. Munoz-Gutierrez· Concurrence†	2015 CO 9	235
2015	People v. Diaz†	2015 CO 28	234
2017	People v. Garcia†	409 P.3d 312	230
2019	People v. Cline· Dissent†	2019 CO 33	227
2014	Hickenlooper, Governor of Colorado v. Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc· Dissent†	2014 CO 77	209
2017	Fitzgerald v. People†	2017 CO 26	205

Showing the 15 most-cited of 88 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 is William W. Hood III on?: William W. Hood III is a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 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).