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 2013 / Active

Linda Cj Lee

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Linda Cj Lee is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lee authored 90 published opinions for the court (2014–2018). Most cited: Dezmond Emeson, V Dept. Of Corrections (40 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. 90 of these were attributed to Lee 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
2016	Dezmond Emeson, V Dept. Of Corrections†	194 Wash. App. 617	40
2014	Hobbs v. Washington State Auditor's Office†	183 Wash. App. 925	38
2015	Gunn v. Riely†	185 Wash. App. 517	23
2014	State v. Rodriguez†	183 Wash. App. 947	23
2018	State v. Drath†	431 P.3d 1098	20
2014	State v. Boswell†	185 Wash. App. 321	19
2014	State v. Button†	184 Wash. App. 442	19
2016	State Of Washington v. Jason Shirts†	195 Wash. App. 849	17
2015	Butson v. Department of Labor & Industries†	189 Wash. App. 288	16
2014	State v. Derenoff†	182 Wash. App. 458	16
2015	State Of Washington v. Matthew Christopher Cherry†	191 Wash. App. 456	15
2016	PacifiCorp v. Washington Utilities & Transportation Commission†	194 Wash. App. 571	12
2016	North Coast Electric Company v. Signal Electric, Inc.†	193 Wash. App. 566	12
2015	In re the Parental Rights to K.M.M.†	187 Wash. App. 545	12
2016	Arthur West v. Steve Vermillion, City Of Puyallup†	196 Wash. App. 627	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 90 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 Cj Lee on?: Linda Cj Lee is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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12 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).