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

Lisa L. Sutton

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Lisa L. Sutton is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Sutton authored 52 published opinions for the court (2014–2019). Most cited: State Of Washington v. Manuel Gonzales (24 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. 52 of these were attributed to Sutton 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
2017	State Of Washington v. Manuel Gonzales†	198 Wash. App. 151	24
2016	Umpqua Bank v. Shasta Apartments, LLC†	194 Wash. App. 685	20
2019	State v. Racus†	433 P.3d 830	19
2015	Potelco, Inc. v. Department of Labor & Industries†	191 Wash. App. 9	19
2015	Albertson v. Washington ex rel. Department of Social & Health Services†	191 Wash. App. 284	18
2015	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. United Food & Commercial Workers International Union†	190 Wash. App. 14	18
2016	State v. Tedder†	194 Wash. App. 753	15
2015	State Of Washington v. Norman Granvel Rooney†	190 Wash. App. 653	15
2015	State v. Elkins†	188 Wash. App. 386	15
2017	Cory And Melissa Jespersen, V Clark County†	199 Wash. App. 568	14
2015	Harder v. Harder†	185 Wash. App. 378	14
2019	State v. Ramirez†	432 P.3d 454	13
2015	State v. McPherson†	186 Wash. App. 114	13
2017	State Of Washington, V Christopher Lyons†	199 Wash. App. 235	10
2015	Payseno v. Kitsap County†	186 Wash. App. 465	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 52 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 Lisa L. Sutton on?: Lisa L. Sutton is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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13 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).