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 2014 / Active

Michael J. Trickey

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Michael J. Trickey is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

Hope International University
University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Trickey authored 57 published opinions for the court (2014–2017), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: State Of Washington v. Samuel Lee Irwin (209 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. 59 of these were attributed to Trickey 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
2015	State Of Washington v. Samuel Lee Irwin†	191 Wash. App. 644	209
2015	Jackson v. Quality Loan Service Corp.†	186 Wash. App. 838	88
2016	4518 S. 256th, LLC v. Karen L. Gibbon, PS†	195 Wash. App. 423	51
2015	Department of Social & Health Services v. Saint-Louis†	188 Wash. App. 905	29
2015	Romney v. Franciscan Medical Group†	186 Wash. App. 728	28
2014	Cho v. City of Seattle†	185 Wash. App. 10	21
2016	Arthur West v. Seattle Port Commission†	194 Wash. App. 821	18
2016	Department of Social & Health Services v. Dabbagh†	193 Wash. App. 445	17
2015	Cruz v. Chavez†	186 Wash. App. 913	15
2015	Rsd Aap Llc v. Alyeska Ocean Llc& Jeff & Jane Doe Hendrick's†	190 Wash. App. 305	12
2014	Harris v. Fortin†	183 Wash. App. 522	12
2015	State v. Afeworki· Dissent†	189 Wash. App. 327	11
2017	Maria Hedger v. Lisa Groeschell And John Doe Groeschell†	199 Wash. App. 8	9
2017	Lawrence Hill, Adam Wise, And Robert Miller, Res. v. Garda Cl Northwest, Inc., App.†	198 Wash. App. 326	9
2016	Hassan Farah v. Hertz Transporting, Inc.†	196 Wash. App. 171	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 59 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 Michael J. Trickey on?: Michael J. Trickey 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).