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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1955 / Served to 1984

Hugh J. Rosellini

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Hugh J. Rosellini was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1909–1984
Tenure: 1955–1984 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rosellini authored 669 published opinions for the court (1955–2007), plus 139 dissents and 78 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Green (1,403 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. 290 of these were attributed to Rosellini 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
1980	State v. Green· Dissent†	616 P.2d 628	1,403
1962	DeHeer v. Seattle Post-Intelligencer	372 P.2d 193	490
1978	Seattle School District No. 1 v. State· Dissent†	585 P.2d 71	335
1984	State v. Campbell· Concurrence†	691 P.2d 929	303
1984	State v. Rupe	683 P.2d 571	299
1984	State v. Jackson	688 P.2d 136	294
1984	State v. Williams	689 P.2d 1065	240
1984	State v. Bartholomew· Concurrence†	683 P.2d 1079	200
1980	In Re the Welfare of Aschauer	611 P.2d 1245	189
1974	State v. Carothers	525 P.2d 731	182
1980	State v. Theroff· Concurrence†	622 P.2d 1240	180
1976	State v. Striker	557 P.2d 847	177
1984	State v. Reed	684 P.2d 699	175
1980	State v. Smith	610 P.2d 869	175
1980	State v. Fain· Dissent†	617 P.2d 720	170

Showing the 15 most-cited of 886 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 Hugh J. Rosellini on?: Hugh J. Rosellini was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Sources

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29 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).