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 1985 / Served to 1994

Gerry L. Alexander

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Gerry L. Alexander was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–1994 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

University of Washington-Seattle Campus
University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Alexander authored 228 published opinions for the court (1985–2001), plus 19 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: In Re the Marriage of Flannagan (73 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. 77 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
1985	In Re the Marriage of Flannagan	709 P.2d 1247	73
1985	In Re the Marriage of Yearout	707 P.2d 1367	73
1994	State v. Johnson	879 P.2d 984	70
1994	State v. Olson	869 P.2d 110	62
1985	Spurrell v. Block	701 P.2d 529	58
1989	Standard Fire Insurance v. Blakeslee	771 P.2d 1172	56
1994	Austin v. U.S. Bank	869 P.2d 404	54
1993	State v. Kisor	844 P.2d 1038	53
1994	Keates v. City of Vancouver· Dissent†	869 P.2d 88	46
1986	State v. Sardinia	713 P.2d 122	46
1989	Washington Federation of State Employees v. State Personnel Board	773 P.2d 421	43
1994	State v. Cotten	879 P.2d 971	42
1990	Richardson v. Denend	795 P.2d 1192	39
1992	State v. Soto-Garcia	841 P.2d 1271	37
1995	Prest v. American Bankers Life Assurance Co.	900 P.2d 595	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 251 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 was Gerry L. Alexander on?: Gerry L. Alexander was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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9 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).