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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1981 / Served to 1985

Carolyn R. Dimmick

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Carolyn R. Dimmick was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1929 · age 97
Tenure: 1981–1985 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dimmick authored 27 published opinions for the court (1981–1985), plus 25 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: Bowers v. Transamerica Title Insurance (369 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. 69 of these were attributed to Dimmick 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
1983	Bowers v. Transamerica Title Insurance· Concurrence†	675 P.2d 193	369
1984	State v. Ryan· Concurrence†	691 P.2d 197	344
1984	State v. Campbell†	691 P.2d 929	303
1984	State v. Jackson· Concurrence†	688 P.2d 136	294
1983	State v. McCullum· Dissent†	656 P.2d 1064	291
1983	State v. Vladovic†	662 P.2d 853	258
1983	Bender v. City of Seattle· Concurrence†	664 P.2d 492	251
1984	State v. Williams· Dissent†	689 P.2d 1065	240
1983	Chambers-Castanes v. King County· Concurrence†	669 P.2d 451	207
1983	Diamond v. Cross· Dissent†	662 P.2d 828	196
1982	State v. Franco†	639 P.2d 1320	186
1984	State v. Chrisman· Dissent†	676 P.2d 419	165
1983	State v. Ringer· Dissent†	674 P.2d 1240	163
1984	In Re the Marriage of Washburn†	677 P.2d 152	156
1983	State v. Jones· Dissent†	664 P.2d 1216	113

Showing the 15 most-cited of 69 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 Carolyn R. Dimmick on?: Carolyn R. Dimmick was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

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4 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).