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 1983 / Served to 1986

William D. Neighbors

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

William D. Neighbors was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1939 · age 87
Tenure: 1983–1986 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Neighbors authored 87 published opinions for the court (1983–1986), plus 6 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: People v. District Court, Second Judicial District (457 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. 36 of these were attributed to Neighbors 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
1986	People v. District Court, Second Judicial District†	713 P.2d 918	457
1985	Travelers Insurance Co. v. Savio· Concurrence†	706 P.2d 1258	315
1983	People v. Lowe	660 P.2d 1261	244
1984	People v. Stark	691 P.2d 334	195
1985	Trimble v. City and County of Denver· Dissent†	697 P.2d 716	164
1983	People v. Gonzales	666 P.2d 123	138
1983	People v. Hrapski	658 P.2d 1367	123
1984	Meyer v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.	689 P.2d 585	121
1985	People v. Briggs	709 P.2d 911	111
1984	Austin v. Litvak	682 P.2d 41	107
1983	People v. Derrera	667 P.2d 1363	106
1984	People v. Sutherland†	683 P.2d 1192	101
1986	Kempter v. Hurd†	713 P.2d 1274	97
1986	Davis v. M.L.G. Corp.	712 P.2d 985	89
1984	People v. Schwartz	678 P.2d 1000	84

Showing the 15 most-cited of 103 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 D. Neighbors on?: William D. Neighbors was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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3 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).