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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1975 / Served to 1980

Charles Horowitz

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Charles Horowitz was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–1989
Tenure: 1975–1980 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Horowitz authored 109 published opinions for the court (1975–1980), plus 22 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Workman (578 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. 38 of these were attributed to Horowitz 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
1978	State v. Workman	584 P.2d 382	578
1980	State v. Simpson· Dissent†	622 P.2d 1199	247
1976	State v. Arndt	553 P.2d 1328	245
1980	State v. Holsworth	607 P.2d 845	169
1976	State v. Newton	552 P.2d 682	158
1979	State v. Fricks	588 P.2d 1328	153
1978	Kelley v. Howard S. Wright Construction Co.	582 P.2d 500	150
1975	Hama Hama Co. v. Shorelines Hearings Board· Dissent†	536 P.2d 157	139
1975	Darrin v. Gould	540 P.2d 882	131
1980	State v. Larson· Dissent†	611 P.2d 771	130
1978	Save a Valuable Environment v. City of Bothell	576 P.2d 401	128
1976	Taskett v. King Broadcasting Co.· Dissent†	546 P.2d 81	127
1980	State v. Martin· Concurrence†	614 P.2d 164	116
1980	Liebergesell v. Evans	613 P.2d 1170	105
1977	In Re the Marriage of Hadley· Dissent†	565 P.2d 790	101

Showing the 15 most-cited of 142 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 Charles Horowitz on?: Charles Horowitz was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Sources

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5 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).