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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Washington / Joined 2013 / Active

Bradley A. Maxa

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Bradley A. Maxa is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

College of William and Mary
College of William and Mary

Judicial Record

In our data, Maxa authored 143 published opinions for the court (2013–2019), plus 3 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Viking Bank v. Firgrove Commons 3, LLC (123 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. 150 of these were attributed to Maxa 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
2014	Viking Bank v. Firgrove Commons 3, LLC†	183 Wash. App. 706	123
2016	State v. Lawler†	194 Wash. App. 275	72
2014	State v. Hamilton†	179 Wash. App. 870	69
2014	Sutton v. Tacoma School District No. 10†	180 Wash. App. 859	59
2013	Mutual of Enumclaw Insurance v. Gregg Roofing, Inc.†	178 Wash. App. 702	59
2016	State Of Washington, V David Palaukekala Makekau†	194 Wash. App. 407	55
2013	State v. Garcia†	177 Wash. App. 769	49
2016	Personal Restraint Petition Of Arthur Lewis Dove†	196 Wash. App. 148	47
2013	State v. Lindsey†	177 Wash. App. 233	47
2014	State v. Green†	182 Wash. App. 133	43
2017	Lawrence Shandola v. Paula Henry†	198 Wash. App. 889	40
2015	State v. Weller†	185 Wash. App. 913	39
2014	State v. Arndt†	179 Wash. App. 373	38
2015	Birgen v. Department of Labor & Industries†	186 Wash. App. 851	36
2014	Kitsap County v. Kitsap Rifle & Revolver Club†	184 Wash. App. 252	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 150 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 Bradley A. Maxa on?: Bradley A. Maxa is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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13 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).