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 1994 / Served to 2010

Cc Bridgewater

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Cc Bridgewater was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1994–2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bridgewater authored 616 published opinions for the court (1994–2011), plus 9 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Holland v. City of Tacoma (265 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. 349 of these were attributed to Bridgewater 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
1998	Holland v. City of Tacoma†	90 Wash. App. 533	265
1998	Holland v. City of Tacoma	954 P.2d 290	245
2006	In Re Welfare of CB	143 P.3d 846	113
2006	In re the Welfare of C.B.†	134 Wash. App. 942	111
2005	State v. Boehning†	127 Wash. App. 511	110
2005	State v. Boehning	111 P.3d 899	107
2005	State v. Winings†	126 Wash. App. 75	98
1996	Palmer v. Jensen	913 P.2d 413	97
2005	State v. Winings	107 P.3d 141	96
2009	In re the Welfare of T.B.†	150 Wash. App. 599	87
2009	In Re Welfare of TB	209 P.3d 497	85
2005	State v. Price†	126 Wash. App. 617	73
2002	In Re Marriage of Wallace	45 P.3d 1131	71
2000	State v. Turner†	103 Wash. App. 515	71
2002	In re the Marriage of Wallace†	111 Wash. App. 697	69

Showing the 15 most-cited of 640 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 Cc Bridgewater on?: Cc Bridgewater was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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16 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).