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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1985 / Served to 1990

Keith McLean Callow

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Keith McLean Callow was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1925–2008
Tenure: 1985–1990 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Callow authored 74 published opinions for the court (1985–1992), plus 15 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Camarillo (730 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. 28 of these were attributed to Callow 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
1990	State v. Camarillo	794 P.2d 850	730
1986	State v. Kennedy· Dissent†	726 P.2d 445	339
1989	Sofie v. Fibreboard Corp.· Dissent†	780 P.2d 260	308
1992	Taggart v. State	822 P.2d 243	279
1986	State v. Smith· Concurrence†	725 P.2d 951	277
1990	Boeing Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.· Dissent†	784 P.2d 507	266
1988	State v. Belgarde· Concurrence†	755 P.2d 174	246
1990	State v. Dennison	801 P.2d 193	199
1987	State v. Black	745 P.2d 12	192
1990	State v. Fjermestad	791 P.2d 897	165
1986	E-Z Loader Boat Trailers, Inc. v. Travelers Indemnity Co.	726 P.2d 439	161
1989	Central Washington Bank v. Mendelson-Zeller, Inc.	779 P.2d 697	159
1985	Bradley v. American Smelting and Refining Co.	709 P.2d 782	152
1987	In Re the Disciplinary Proceeding Against Deming†	736 P.2d 639	151
1989	McKee v. American Home Products Corp.	782 P.2d 1045	150

Showing the 15 most-cited of 99 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 Keith McLean Callow on?: Keith McLean Callow was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Sources

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5 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).