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 2010 / Active

Jill Johanson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Jill Johanson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

Washington State University
Willamette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Johanson authored 320 published opinions for the court (2011–2019), plus 6 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Lundy (196 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. 312 of these were attributed to Johanson 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
2013	State v. Lundy· Concurrence†	176 Wash. App. 96	196
2012	Stiles v. Kearney†	168 Wash. App. 250	159
2011	State v. Walker	265 P.3d 191	78
2014	Department of Social & Health Services v. E.I.†	181 Wash. App. 45	74
2013	Alonso v. Qwest Communications Co.†	178 Wash. App. 734	66
2013	Scott's Excavating Vancouver, LLC v. Winlock Properties, LLC†	176 Wash. App. 335	58
2012	State v. Embry†	171 Wash. App. 714	58
2015	Woods View II, LLC v. Kitsap County†	188 Wash. App. 1	48
2014	State v. Dunn†	180 Wash. App. 570	46
2013	State v. Locke· Dissent†	175 Wash. App. 779	45
2012	State v. Chouinard†	169 Wash. App. 895	43
2016	State Of Washington, V Wyatt Taylor Seward†	196 Wash. App. 579	35
2016	Harden v. Hester†	198 Wash. App. 190	30
2015	State v. Lyle†	188 Wash. App. 848	28
2016	Department of Social & Health Services v. L.H.†	195 Wash. App. 673	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 329 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 Jill Johanson on?: Jill Johanson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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16 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).