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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1977 / Served to 1982

Floyd V. Hicks

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Floyd V. Hicks was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1915–1992
Tenure: 1977–1982 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Washington State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hicks authored 100 published opinions for the court (1977–1982), plus 13 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Tharp (294 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. 43 of these were attributed to Hicks 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
1981	State v. Tharp	637 P.2d 961	294
1980	State v. Theroff	622 P.2d 1240	180
1980	State v. Stephens	607 P.2d 304	165
1980	Davis v. Department of Labor & Industries	615 P.2d 1279	164
1978	Childers v. Childers	575 P.2d 201	160
1978	Seattle-First National Bank v. Shoreline Concrete Co.· Concurrence†	588 P.2d 1308	151
1978	Kelley v. Howard S. Wright Construction Co.· Concurrence†	582 P.2d 500	150
1982	Ridgeview Properties v. Starbuck	638 P.2d 1231	133
1981	State v. Cleppe	635 P.2d 435	120
1981	State v. Alexis	621 P.2d 1269	117
1980	State v. Dupard	609 P.2d 961	117
1979	State v. Wicke	591 P.2d 452	115
1981	Overton v. Economic Assistance Authority	637 P.2d 652	114
1980	Egede-Nissen v. Crystal Mountain, Inc.	606 P.2d 1214	104
1978	Washington Water Power Co. v. Washington State Human Rights Commission· Dissent†	586 P.2d 1149	100

Showing the 15 most-cited of 128 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 Floyd V. Hicks on?: Floyd V. Hicks 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).