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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Washington / Joined 2008 / Active

Kevin M. Korsmo

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Kevin M. Korsmo is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Korsmo authored 436 published opinions for the court (2008–2019), plus 35 dissents and 5 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. 420 of these were attributed to Korsmo 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.†	153 Wash. App. 710	131
2015	State of Washington v. Joshua James Clark†	191 Wash. App. 369	101
2012	Tatham v. Rogers· Dissent†	170 Wash. App. 76	75
2011	In re the Marriage of Akon†	160 Wash. App. 48	66
2013	State v. Love†	176 Wash. App. 911	60
2012	In re the Estates of Jones†	170 Wash. App. 594	59
2016	In re the Termination of: IM.- M. & Z.M. - M.· Dissent†	196 Wash. App. 914	42
2017	Verda Lee Crosswhite Vv Washington State Dept. of Social & Health Services· Dissent†	197 Wash. App. 539	40
2017	William Merriman, et ux v. American Guarantee & Liability Insurance Co.· Dissent†	198 Wash. App. 594	37
2009	State v. Scott†	151 Wash. App. 520	35
2017	State of Washington v. Dennis Wayne Jussila· Dissent†	197 Wash. App. 908	34
2014	Keck v. Collins· Concurrence†	181 Wash. App. 67	32
2009	State v. Scott	213 P.3d 71	32
2011	State v. Walters	255 P.3d 835	31
2011	Colorado Structures, Inc. v. Blue Mountain Plaza, LLC†	159 Wash. App. 654	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 476 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 is Kevin M. Korsmo on?: Kevin M. Korsmo is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

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18 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).