How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Washington reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Washington / Joined 2008 / Active

Ann Schindler

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Ann Schindler is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington (36 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Schindler authored 534 published opinions for the court (2002–2019), plus 3 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State Of Washington v. Jorge Luis Lizarraga (75 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. 404 of these were attributed to Schindler 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
2015	State Of Washington v. Jorge Luis Lizarraga†	191 Wash. App. 530	75
2004	State v. Thomas	98 P.3d 1258	68
2016	State Of Washington v. Michael Christopher Shelton†	194 Wash. App. 660	66
2011	State v. Ramos†	164 Wash. App. 327	61
2015	State v. Wade†	186 Wash. App. 749	60
2005	VersusLaw, Inc. v. Stoel Rives, L.L.P.	111 P.3d 866	57
2010	State v. Fortun-Cebada	241 P.3d 800	48
2002	Bingham v. Lechner	45 P.3d 562	48
2010	State v. Fortun-Cebada†	158 Wash. App. 158	47
2006	In Re VRR	141 P.3d 85	47
2009	State v. Hassan	211 P.3d 441	46
2009	State v. Hassan†	151 Wash. App. 209	46
2005	State v. Moses	119 P.3d 906	46
2008	Endicott v. Saul†	142 Wash. App. 899	44
2006	State v. Warren	138 P.3d 1081	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 540 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 Court of Appeals of Washington reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Ann Schindler on?: Ann Schindler is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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17 years on the Court of Appeals of Washington. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).