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 2013 / Active

George B. Fearing

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

George B. Fearing is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington (36 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

Walla Walla University
University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Fearing authored 110 published opinions for the court (2013–2017), plus 12 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Brownfield v. City of Yakima (89 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. 134 of these were attributed to Fearing 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
2013	Brownfield v. City of Yakima†	178 Wash. App. 850	89
2015	State v. Lazcano†	188 Wash. App. 338	63
2016	State of Washington v. Gary Lyle Stoddard†	192 Wash. App. 222	59
2015	Diane Christian, et ux v. Antoine Tohmeh, MD, et ux†	191 Wash. App. 709	58
2014	State v. Mercado†	181 Wash. App. 624	45
2017	Robert Repin v. State of Washington and Washington State University†	198 Wash. App. 243	43
2015	Life Designs Ranch, Inc. v. Michael Sommer· Concurrence†	191 Wash. App. 320	42
2015	Hayes v. Hayes†	185 Wash. App. 567	36
2017	State of Washington v. Dennis Wayne Jussila†	197 Wash. App. 908	34
2014	State v. Jardinez†	184 Wash. App. 518	31
2014	State v. Hudlow†	182 Wash. App. 266	31
2017	Stephen Kerr Eugster v. Washington State Bar Association†	198 Wash. App. 758	27
2016	Joshua Driggs v. Andrew T.G. Howlett, M.D., et ux†	193 Wash. App. 875	25
2015	In Re the Dependency of Ca.R.· Dissent†	191 Wash. App. 601	25
2015	Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Ndiaye†	188 Wash. App. 376	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 134 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 is George B. Fearing on?: George B. Fearing is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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13 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).