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 1985 / Served to 2014

Kenneth C. Grosse

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Kenneth C. Grosse was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–2014 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

University of Washington-Seattle Campus
University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Grosse authored 879 published opinions for the court (1985–2014), plus 8 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Jones (90 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. 537 of these were attributed to Grosse 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
1993	State v. Jones	863 P.2d 85	90
1994	State v. Ross	883 P.2d 329	84
1993	Marassi v. Lau	859 P.2d 605	81
1991	Chaussee v. Maryland Casualty Co.	803 P.2d 1339	77
1990	Richards v. Overlake Hospital Medical Center	796 P.2d 737	71
1990	Rhinehart v. Seattle Times, Inc.	798 P.2d 1155	71
1986	Bridle Trails Community Club v. City of Bellevue	724 P.2d 1110	69
1993	Matter of Marriage of Stern	846 P.2d 1387	65
2014	The-Anh Nguyen v. City of Seattle· Concurrence†	179 Wash. App. 155	63
2003	Escude v. King County Public Hospital District No. 2†	117 Wash. App. 183	63
2001	Haubry v. Snow†	106 Wash. App. 666	62
2003	Escude v. KING COUNTY PUBLIC HOSP.	69 P.3d 895	61
1993	Thompson v. Everett Clinic	860 P.2d 1054	60
2001	Haubry v. Snow	31 P.3d 1186	59
1993	Denny's Restaurants, Inc. v. Security Union Title Insurance	859 P.2d 619	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 911 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 Kenneth C. Grosse on?: Kenneth C. Grosse was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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29 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).