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 1998 / Active

Marlin J. Appelwick

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Marlin J. Appelwick is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, serving since 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1998 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Appelwick authored 664 published opinions for the court (1998–2019), plus 5 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: In re the Marriage of Rockwell (180 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. 507 of these were attributed to Appelwick 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
2007	In re the Marriage of Rockwell†	141 Wash. App. 235	180
2013	State v. Calvin†	176 Wash. App. 1	149
2007	In Re Marriage of Rockwell	170 P.3d 572	146
2000	Mayer v. City of Seattle†	102 Wash. App. 66	94
2000	Mayer v. City of Seattle	10 P.3d 408	88
2009	Ensley v. Pitcher	222 P.3d 99	86
2013	In re the Marriage of Schnurman†	178 Wash. App. 634	67
2005	State v. Sansone†	127 Wash. App. 630	65
2000	State v. Noah	9 P.3d 858	64
2005	State v. Sansone	111 P.3d 1251	62
1999	Litho Color, Inc. v. Pacific Employers Insurance†	98 Wash. App. 286	62
2000	Carlstrom v. Hanline	990 P.2d 986	59
2014	Ha v. Signal Electric, Inc.†	182 Wash. App. 436	56
1999	Honesty in Environmental Analysis & Legislation (HEAL) v. Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board†	96 Wash. App. 522	55
2013	State v. France†	176 Wash. App. 463	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 676 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 Marlin J. Appelwick on?: Marlin J. Appelwick is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

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28 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).