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 2000 / Served to 2014

Christine Quinn-Brintnall

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Christine Quinn-Brintnall was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2014 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

The Evergreen State College

Judicial Record

In our data, Quinn-Brintnall authored 7 published opinions for the court (2001–2012), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Ehrhardt (42 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. 10 of these were attributed to Quinn-Brintnall 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
2012	State v. Ehrhardt· Dissent†	276 P.3d 332	42
2011	State v. Corona†	261 P.3d 680	19
2001	In Re Marriage of Barber†	23 P.3d 1106	16
2011	UNIFUND CCR PARTNERS v. Sunde†	260 P.3d 915	14
2011	State v. Steen· Dissent†	265 P.3d 901	12
2011	State v. Calhoun†	257 P.3d 693	12
2012	State v. Young†	275 P.3d 1150	8
2012	State v. Dupuis†	278 P.3d 683	7
2012	Freedom Foundation v. Department of Transportation· Concurrence†	276 P.3d 341	7
2012	State v. Cross†	271 P.3d 264	6

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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 Christine Quinn-Brintnall on?: Christine Quinn-Brintnall was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

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14 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).