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 1995 / Served to 2012

David H. Armstrong

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

David H. Armstrong was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2012 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Armstrong authored 1,003 published opinions for the court (1969–2012), plus 34 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: In Re the Marriage of Greene (127 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. 558 of these were attributed to Armstrong 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
1999	In Re the Marriage of Greene	986 P.2d 144	127
2000	State v. Jorden	11 P.3d 866	96
2000	State v. Jorden†	103 Wash. App. 221	95
2009	In re the Welfare of T.B.· Dissent†	150 Wash. App. 599	87
1996	Phillips Building Co., Inc. v. An	915 P.2d 1146	87
1975	Ciminski v. Finn Corp.	537 P.2d 850	81
2011	In re the Marriage of Fahey· Dissent†	164 Wash. App. 42	79
1999	State v. Marintorres	969 P.2d 501	77
1997	Westberg v. All-Purpose Structures, Inc.†	86 Wash. App. 405	75
1999	Dewey v. Tacoma School District No. 10†	95 Wash. App. 18	72
2002	Milligan v. Thompson	42 P.3d 418	69
1972	State v. Madry	504 P.2d 1156	65
1998	State v. Saunders	958 P.2d 364	63
1997	Chen v. State	937 P.2d 612	62
2012	Casterline v. Roberts†	168 Wash. App. 376	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,041 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 David H. Armstrong on?: David H. Armstrong was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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17 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).