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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1999 / Served to 2007

Bobbe Jean Bridge

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Bobbe Jean Bridge was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Tenure: 1999–2007 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bridge authored 223 published opinions for the court (2000–2009), plus 11 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Gregory (392 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. 133 of these were attributed to Bridge 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
2006	State v. Gregory†	158 Wash. 2d 759	392
2001	Cockle v. Dept. of Labor and Industries	16 P.3d 583	349
2001	Cockle v. Department of Labor & Industries†	142 Wash. 2d 801	343
2003	State v. Dhaliwal†	150 Wash. 2d 559	297
2002	Jones v. Allstate Insurance†	146 Wash. 2d 291	262
2002	Jones v. Allstate Ins. Co.	45 P.3d 1068	252
2004	State v. Varga	86 P.3d 139	246
2004	State v. Varga†	151 Wash. 2d 179	243
2005	State v. Brightman	122 P.3d 150	233
2005	State v. Grayson· Dissent†	154 Wash. 2d 333	232
2005	State v. Brightman†	155 Wash. 2d 506	231
2005	Vallandigham v. Clover Park School District No. 400†	154 Wash. 2d 16	231
2002	Robel v. Roundup Corp.· Dissent†	148 Wash. 2d 35	230
2005	Vallandigham v. CLOVER PARK SCHOOL DIST.	109 P.3d 805	228
2004	Port of Seattle v. Pollution Control Hearings Board†	151 Wash. 2d 568	228

Showing the 15 most-cited of 247 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 Washington Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Bobbe Jean Bridge on?: Bobbe Jean Bridge was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Sources

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