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 1941 / Served to 1953

William S. Jackson

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

William S. Jackson was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1941. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1889 · age 137
Tenure: 1941–1953 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1941	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Denver

Judicial Record

In our data, Jackson authored 157 published opinions for the court (1942–1952), plus 7 dissents. Most cited: Smith v. Greenburg (40 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. 20 of these were attributed to Jackson 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
1950	Smith v. Greenburg	218 P.2d 514	40
1951	Block v. People	240 P.2d 512	37
1943	International Trust Co. v. Liebhardt	139 P.2d 264	30
1946	Columbian National Life Insurance v. McClain· Dissent†	174 P.2d 348	25
1945	Hanlon v. Woodhouse	160 P.2d 998	25
1947	Wilson v. Ross Investment Company	180 P.2d 226	22
1952	Brodhead v. City & County of Denver	247 P.2d 140	21
1950	Jackson v. City of Glenwood Springs	221 P.2d 1083	20
1950	Lively v. Wick	221 P.2d 374	20
1945	Brunton v. International Trust Co.	164 P.2d 472	20
1945	Carlson v. McNeill	162 P.2d 226	20
1943	Murphy v. Traynor	135 P.2d 230	20
1942	Zeigler v. People	124 P.2d 593	19
1952	Strickland v. Wysowatcky	250 P.2d 199	17
1949	Warren v. People†	121 Colo. 118	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 164 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 S. Jackson on?: William S. Jackson was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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11 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).