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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1951 / Served to 1970

Frank P. Weaver

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Frank P. Weaver was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1904–1983
Tenure: 1951–1970 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Weaver authored 489 published opinions for the court (1951–1974), plus 26 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: Pederson v. Dumouchel (139 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. 115 of these were attributed to Weaver 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
1967	Pederson v. Dumouchel	431 P.2d 973	139
1967	City of Seattle v. Drew	423 P.2d 522	124
1967	State v. Allen	424 P.2d 1021	115
1962	Gardner v. Malone	376 P.2d 651	114
1969	Rikstad v. Holmberg	456 P.2d 355	105
1963	Miller v. City of Tacoma	378 P.2d 464	102
1954	Bowman v. Webster	269 P.2d 960	98
1968	In Re Elliott· Dissent†	446 P.2d 347	88
1963	State Ex Rel. Humiston v. Meyers	380 P.2d 735	81
1962	State v. Lundquist	374 P.2d 246	80
1961	State v. La Porte	365 P.2d 24	67
1953	Kramer v. Portland-Seattle Auto Freight, Inc.	261 P.2d 692	65
1952	Donaldson v. Greenwood	242 P.2d 1038	64
1957	State v. Calkins· Concurrence†	314 P.2d 449	62
1970	Wells v. City of Vancouver· Concurrence†	467 P.2d 292	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 532 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 Frank P. Weaver on?: Frank P. Weaver was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Sources

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19 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).