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 2007 / Active

Linda Lau

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Linda Lau is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Lau authored 416 published opinions for the court (2008–2016). Most cited: Norcon Builders, LLC v. GMP Homes VG, LLC (174 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. 375 of these were attributed to Lau 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
2011	Norcon Builders, LLC v. GMP Homes VG, LLC†	161 Wash. App. 474	174
2010	State v. Brown†	159 Wash. App. 1	72
2014	The-Anh Nguyen v. City of Seattle†	179 Wash. App. 155	63
2014	Ainsworth v. Progressive Casualty Insurance†	180 Wash. App. 52	61
2013	Grange Insurance v. Roberts†	179 Wash. App. 739	60
2013	Bale v. Allison†	173 Wash. App. 435	55
2013	In re the Marriage of Larson†	178 Wash. App. 133	54
2012	City of Bellevue v. Raum†	171 Wash. App. 124	51
2014	State v. Fedorov†	181 Wash. App. 187	50
2014	Frank Coluccio Construction Co. v. Department of Labor & Industries†	181 Wash. App. 25	49
2013	State v. Warnock†	174 Wash. App. 608	47
2012	Rice v. Offshore Systems, Inc.†	167 Wash. App. 77	47
2012	State v. Truong†	168 Wash. App. 529	38
2013	Buck Mountain Owners' Ass'n v. Prestwich†	174 Wash. App. 702	37
2010	BROWN EX REL. RICHARDS v. Brown	239 P.3d 602	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 416 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 Linda Lau on?: Linda Lau is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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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).