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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1995 / Served to 2011

Gerry L. Alexander

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Gerry L. Alexander was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1936 · age 90
Tenure: 1995–2011 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Alexander authored 353 published opinions for the court (1995–2012), plus 97 dissents and 111 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Warren (511 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. 378 of these were attributed to Alexander 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
2008	State v. Warren· Concurrence†	165 Wash. 2d 17	511
1998	Mahler v. Szucs· Dissent†	135 Wash. 2d 398	381
2000	Lybbert v. Grant County†	141 Wash. 2d 29	365
1997	State v. Bourgeois†	133 Wash. 2d 389	336
2008	State v. Magers†	164 Wash. 2d 174	317
1999	Hertog v. City of Seattle· Concurrence†	138 Wash. 2d 265	309
2000	State v. Fernandez-Medina†	141 Wash. 2d 448	306
1997	State v. Armenta†	134 Wash. 2d 1	270
1997	Leingang v. Pierce County Medical Bureau, Inc.· Dissent†	131 Wash. 2d 133	266
2001	State v. Demery· Concurrence†	144 Wash. 2d 753	264
1997	Burnet v. Spokane Ambulance†	131 Wash. 2d 484	263
1997	State v. Michielli· Concurrence†	132 Wash. 2d 229	257
2001	State v. Woods†	143 Wash. 2d 561	256
2005	State v. Roggenkamp	106 P.3d 196	252
1997	State v. Berlin· Dissent†	133 Wash. 2d 541	252

Showing the 15 most-cited of 561 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 Gerry L. Alexander on?: Gerry L. Alexander was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Sources

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16 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).