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 1994 / Active

Mary Kay Becker

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Mary Kay Becker is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, serving since 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1994 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Becker authored 880 published opinions for the court (1994–2018), plus 27 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: State Of Washington, Resp. v. Alan J. Sinclair Ii, App.27 (158 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. 603 of these were attributed to Becker 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	State Of Washington, Resp. v. Alan J. Sinclair Ii, App.27†	192 Wash. App. 380	158
2013	Berryman v. Metcalf†	177 Wash. App. 644	114
2017	Jose Maldonado v. Noemi Lucero Maldonado†	197 Wash. App. 779	100
2015	State v. Irby†	187 Wash. App. 183	93
2000	Eagle Point Condominium Owners Ass'n v. Coy†	102 Wash. App. 697	88
2000	Anderson v. State Farm Mut. Ins. Co.	2 P.3d 1029	86
2000	Anderson v. State Farm Mutual Insurance†	101 Wash. App. 323	84
2011	Cole v. HARVEYLAND, LLC	258 P.3d 70	78
2014	State v. Kinzle†	181 Wash. App. 774	77
2013	State v. Land†	172 Wash. App. 593	76
2013	State v. Rattana Keo Phuong· Dissent†	174 Wash. App. 494	75
2012	224 Westlake, LLC v. Engstrom Properties, LLC†	169 Wash. App. 700	69
2001	Citizens To Preserve Pioneer Park, L.L.C. v. City of Mercer Island†	106 Wash. App. 461	64
2012	Karlberg v. Otten†	167 Wash. App. 522	63
2001	PIONEER PARK v. Mercer Island	24 P.3d 1079	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 917 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 Mary Kay Becker on?: Mary Kay Becker is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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32 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).