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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1939 / Served to 1949

Clyde G. Jeffers

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Clyde G. Jeffers was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1939. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1881 · age 145
Tenure: 1939–1949 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1939	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jeffers authored 324 published opinions for the court (1939–1949), plus 15 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Beck v. Dye (130 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. 12 of these were attributed to Jeffers 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
1939	Beck v. Dye· Dissent	92 P.2d 1113	130
1942	State v. Severns	125 P.2d 659	94
1944	J. W. Seavey Hop Corp. v. Pollock	147 P.2d 310	78
1940	Shelton Hotel Co., Inc. v. Bates	104 P.2d 478	68
1946	D'Amico v. Conguista· Dissent	167 P.2d 157	53
1941	Cowiche Growers, Inc. v. Bates	117 P.2d 624	52
1940	State v. Sears	103 P.2d 337	47
1940	Associated Indemnity Corp. v. Wachsmith	99 P.2d 420	47
1942	State Ex Rel. Gebhardt v. Superior Court	131 P.2d 943	44
1941	In Re the Estate of Schafer	113 P.2d 41	43
1940	Ayers v. City of Tacoma	108 P.2d 348	42
1939	Morris v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad	97 P.2d 119	42
1944	Lawson v. Helmich	146 P.2d 537	39
1941	Wright v. Safeway Stores, Inc.	109 P.2d 542	39
1941	Handley v. Oakley	116 P.2d 833	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 345 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 Clyde G. Jeffers on?: Clyde G. Jeffers was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).