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 2018 / Active

Lori K Smith

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Lori K Smith is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, serving since 2018. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2018 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2018	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Smith authored 4 published opinions for the court (2018–2019). Most cited: State v. Aradon (In re A.E.T.H.) (14 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. 4 of these were attributed to Smith 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
2019	State v. Aradon (In re A.E.T.H.)†	446 P.3d 667	14
2019	Gerlach v. Cove Apartments, LLC†	446 P.3d 624	5
2019	Grp. Health Coop. v. Department of Revenue†	438 P.3d 158	2
2018	State v. A.S.†	430 P.3d 703	2

Showing the 4 most-cited of 4 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 Lori K Smith on?: Lori K Smith is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

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8 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).