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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Washington / Joined 1993 / Served to 2009

John A. Schultheis

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

John A. Schultheis was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1993–2009 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

Washington State University
Gonzaga University

Judicial Record

In our data, Schultheis authored 578 published opinions for the court (1987–2009), plus 52 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Quinn v. Cherry Lane Auto Plaza, Inc. (131 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. 322 of these were attributed to Schultheis 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	Quinn v. Cherry Lane Auto Plaza, Inc.· Dissent†	153 Wash. App. 710	131
1996	In Re the Marriage of Williams	927 P.2d 679	86
2000	Pederson v. Potter	11 P.3d 833	81
2000	Pederson v. Potter†	103 Wash. App. 62	80
2000	State v. Barragan	9 P.3d 942	80
2000	State v. Barragan†	102 Wash. App. 754	80
1996	Young v. Department of Labor & Industries†	81 Wash. App. 123	80
1996	State v. Dominguez	914 P.2d 141	72
1997	State v. Echeverria	934 P.2d 1214	66
1994	Matter of Marriage of Luckey	868 P.2d 189	64
2000	Spence v. Kaminski†	103 Wash. App. 325	57
2005	HOUSING AUTHORITY CITY OF PASCO AND FRANKLIN CTY. v. Pleasant	109 P.3d 422	56
2005	Housing Authority v. Pleasant†	126 Wash. App. 382	55
2007	State v. Sivins	155 P.3d 982	52
2007	State v. Sivins†	138 Wash. App. 52	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 636 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 John A. Schultheis on?: John A. Schultheis was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

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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).