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 1995 / Served to 2012

Anne Ellington

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Anne Ellington was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2012 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

University of Colorado Boulder
University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Ellington authored 640 published opinions for the court (1995–2012), plus 6 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Department of Social & Health Services v. Rhyne (213 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. 405 of these were attributed to Ellington 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
2001	Department of Social & Health Services v. Rhyne†	108 Wash. App. 149	213
2001	In Re Dependency of TR	29 P.3d 1275	209
2012	State v. Thompson†	169 Wash. App. 436	170
2005	Department of Social & Health Services v. Gilfillen†	126 Wash. App. 181	154
2005	In Re Dependency of TLG	108 P.3d 156	151
2000	State v. Nitsch†	100 Wash. App. 512	124
2000	State v. Nitsch	997 P.2d 1000	119
1996	Canron, Inc. v. Federal Insurance	918 P.2d 937	85
2004	In Re Dependency of AC	98 P.3d 89	77
1998	Matter of Detention of As	955 P.2d 836	76
2000	In Re MB	3 P.3d 780	69
2002	Newton Insurance Agency & Brokerage, Inc. v. Caledonian Insurance Group, Inc.†	114 Wash. App. 151	68
2000	In re the Interest of M.B.†	101 Wash. App. 425	67
2001	State v. Freeburg†	105 Wash. App. 492	65
2002	State v. Gonzales	45 P.3d 205	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 655 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 was Anne Ellington on?: Anne Ellington was 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).