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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1937 / Served to 1951

George B. Simpson

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

George B. Simpson was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1937–1951 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Simpson authored 373 published opinions for the court (1937–1950), plus 96 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Gruen v. State Tax Commission (166 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. 23 of these were attributed to Simpson 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
1949	Gruen v. State Tax Commission	211 P.2d 651	166
1942	In Re the Welfare of Hudson· Dissent	126 P.2d 765	116
1947	State v. Northwest Magnesite Co.· Dissent	182 P.2d 643	96
1949	State v. Houck	203 P.2d 693	76
1944	Tucker v. Brown	150 P.2d 604	75
1944	Lynch v. Department of Labor & Industries· Dissent	145 P.2d 265	73
1941	In Re the Eligibility of the Persons Employed at the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co.	110 P.2d 877	73
1946	State v. Robinson	167 P.2d 986	72
1948	In Re the Employees of Buffelen Lumber & Manufacturing Co.	201 P.2d 194	61
1946	D'Amico v. Conguista	167 P.2d 157	53
1942	Morgan v. Department of Social Security· Dissent	127 P.2d 686	53
1941	Cowiche Growers, Inc. v. Bates· Dissent	117 P.2d 624	52
1941	McCormick Lumber Co. v. Department of Labor & Industries· Dissent	108 P.2d 807	52
1948	State v. Miller	201 P.2d 136	50
1948	State v. Miles	190 P.2d 740	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 486 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 George B. Simpson on?: George B. Simpson was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

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14 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).