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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1942 / Served to 1962

Joseph A. Mallery

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Joseph A. Mallery was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1942. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–2000
Tenure: 1942–1962 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1942	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mallery authored 482 published opinions for the court (1943–1962), plus 87 dissents and 31 concurrences. Most cited: Ackerman v. Port of Seattle (119 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. 156 of these were attributed to Mallery 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
1960	Ackerman v. Port of Seattle· Dissent†	348 P.2d 664	119
1960	City of Bellingham v. Schampera· Dissent†	356 P.2d 292	85
1958	Windust v. Department of Labor & Industries	323 P.2d 241	85
1954	State Ex Rel. Ogden v. City of Bellevue	275 P.2d 899	81
1951	Power, Inc. v. Huntley· Dissent†	235 P.2d 173	73
1961	Orcutt v. Spokane County· Dissent†	364 P.2d 1102	70
1959	Browning v. Slenderella Systems of Seattle· Dissent†	341 P.2d 859	69
1948	Creasman v. Boyle· Dissent	196 P.2d 835	66
1961	Miller v. Staton· Dissent†	365 P.2d 333	63
1960	State v. Collins	348 P.2d 214	59
1954	Lindquist v. Mullen	277 P.2d 724	59
1952	Household Finance Corp. v. State· Dissent†	244 P.2d 260	59
1956	Ditmar v. Ditmar	293 P.2d 759	52
1955	State v. Lyskoski	287 P.2d 114	51
1958	Winkenwerder v. City of Yakima· Concurrence†	328 P.2d 873	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 600 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 Joseph A. Mallery on?: Joseph A. Mallery was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Sources

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20 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).