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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Washington / Joined 2012 / Active

James Verellen

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

James Verellen is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

Washington State University
Willamette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Verellen authored 159 published opinions for the court (2012–2019), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: In re the Marriage of Raskob (61 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. 161 of these were attributed to Verellen 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
2014	In re the Marriage of Raskob†	183 Wash. App. 503	61
2013	In re the Marriage of Wright†	179 Wash. App. 257	61
2016	Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. v. Valerie J. Slotke†	192 Wash. App. 166	43
2015	State v. Chenoweth†	188 Wash. App. 521	43
2013	FutureSelect Portfolio Management, Inc. v. Tremont Group Holdings, Inc.†	175 Wash. App. 840	40
2012	American Express Centurion Bank v. Stratman†	172 Wash. App. 667	39
2014	In re the Marriage of Valente†	179 Wash. App. 817	38
2014	Knight v. Department of Labor & Industries†	181 Wash. App. 788	35
2015	Michael Salewski, D.v.m., App. v. Pilchuck Veterinary Hospital, Inc., P.s., Res.†	189 Wash. App. 898	34
2013	Berschauer Phillips Construction Co. v. Mutual of Enumclaw Insurance†	175 Wash. App. 222	29
2014	State v. Hecht†	179 Wash. App. 497	26
2017	Jonathan Deegan v. Windermere Real Estate/center Isle, Inc.†	197 Wash. App. 875	23
2013	Nielsen v. Department of Licensing· Dissent†	177 Wash. App. 45	22
2015	Sak & Associates, / Cross- Res. v. Ferguson Construction, / Cross-app.†	189 Wash. App. 405	19
2013	State v. Quy Dinh Nguyen†	179 Wash. App. 271	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 161 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 James Verellen on?: James Verellen 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).