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Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1949 / Served to 1956

Fredrick G. Hamley

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Fredrick G. Hamley was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1975
Tenure: 1949–1956 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Gonzaga University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hamley authored 179 published opinions for the court (1949–1956), plus 11 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: McLeod v. Grant County School District No. 128 (229 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. 35 of these were attributed to Hamley 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
1953	McLeod v. Grant County School District No. 128	255 P.2d 360	229
1956	In RE OLSEN v. Delmore	295 P.2d 324	146
1952	State v. Goebel	240 P.2d 251	128
1953	Pierce v. Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Ass'n	260 P.2d 765	113
1952	Borst v. Borst	251 P.2d 149	112
1954	State Ex Rel. Ogden v. City of Bellevue· Concurrence†	275 P.2d 899	81
1951	Senior Citizens League, Inc. v. Department of Social Security	228 P.2d 478	72
1953	McUne v. Fuqua	253 P.2d 632	67
1950	Franks v. Department of Labor & Industries	215 P.2d 416	63
1953	Bowman v. Webster	253 P.2d 934	62
1953	Roehl v. Public Utility District No. 1	261 P.2d 92	59
1952	Household Finance Corp. v. State· Dissent†	244 P.2d 260	59
1954	Johnson v. Howard	275 P.2d 736	58
1952	State v. Cyr	246 P.2d 480	57
1951	Group Health Cooperative v. King County Medical Society†	39 Wash. 2d 586	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 199 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 Fredrick G. Hamley on?: Fredrick G. Hamley was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Sources

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7 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).