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 2005 / Served to 2014

Joel Penoyar

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Joel Penoyar was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2005–2014 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Penoyar authored 532 published opinions for the court (2006–2014), plus 10 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Anderson (181 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. 439 of these were attributed to Penoyar 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
2009	State v. Anderson†	153 Wash. App. 417	181
2009	State v. Anderson	220 P.3d 1273	173
2009	State v. Yarbrough· Concurrence†	151 Wash. App. 66	130
2009	BUILDING INDUSTRY ASS'N v. McCarthy	218 P.3d 196	96
2009	Building Industry Ass'n v. McCarthy†	152 Wash. App. 720	94
2014	Knight v. Knight†	178 Wash. App. 929	87
2010	State v. Venegas†	155 Wash. App. 507	77
2007	State v. Gerdts	150 P.3d 627	76
2007	State v. Gerdts†	136 Wash. App. 720	75
2007	Lutz Tile, Inc. v. Krech	151 P.3d 219	74
2007	Lutz Tile, Inc. v. Krech†	136 Wash. App. 899	74
2010	State v. Venegas	228 P.3d 813	71
2013	Martini v. Post†	178 Wash. App. 153	68
2013	Gorman v. Pierce County†	176 Wash. App. 63	55
2013	In re the Welfare of X.T.†	174 Wash. App. 733	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 551 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 Joel Penoyar on?: Joel Penoyar 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).