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 2010 / Active

Laurel H. Siddoway

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Laurel H. Siddoway is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Siddoway authored 319 published opinions for the court (2010–2019), plus 8 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Tatham v. Rogers (75 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. 289 of these were attributed to Siddoway 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
2012	Tatham v. Rogers†	170 Wash. App. 76	75
2015	State Of Washington v. Adrian Munoz Rivera· Concurrence†	190 Wash. App. 870	72
2012	River House Development, Inc. v. Integrus Architecture	272 P.3d 289	56
2011	State v. Nunez†	160 Wash. App. 150	55
2011	State v. Bea†	162 Wash. App. 570	52
2012	Cantu v. Department of Labor & Industries†	168 Wash. App. 14	50
2011	Erection Co. v. Department of Labor & Industries†	160 Wash. App. 194	50
2012	Cantu v. Department of Labor & Industries	277 P.3d 685	49
2011	State v. Bea	254 P.3d 948	49
2014	State v. Slocum†	183 Wash. App. 438	47
2016	Damian Schwarz v. Susan M. Schwarz†	192 Wash. App. 180	46
2014	State v. Duncan†	180 Wash. App. 245	45
2011	State v. Brown	245 P.3d 776	44
2015	In re the Marriage of Kile†	186 Wash. App. 864	42
2014	Shepard v. Holmes†	185 Wash. App. 730	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 332 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 Laurel H. Siddoway on?: Laurel H. Siddoway is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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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).