How do judges of the Washington Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1957 / Served to 1977

Robert T. Hunter

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Robert T. Hunter was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1908–2000
Tenure: 1957–1977 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hunter authored 436 published opinions for the court (1957–1977), plus 69 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Johnson v. Morris (169 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. 155 of these were attributed to Hunter 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
1976	Johnson v. Morris	557 P.2d 1299	169
1974	State v. Smith· Concurrence†	527 P.2d 674	146
1968	Markham Advertising Co. v. State	439 P.2d 248	141
1962	State v. White· Concurrence†	374 P.2d 942	141
1975	Schroeder v. Fageol Motors, Inc.	544 P.2d 20	137
1976	Taskett v. King Broadcasting Co.	546 P.2d 81	127
1975	Mason v. Bitton	534 P.2d 1360	124
1975	Maltman v. Sauer	530 P.2d 254	124
1972	Baker v. Baker	498 P.2d 315	111
1976	Norway Hill Preservation & Protection Ass'n v. King County Council	552 P.2d 674	106
1959	Yelle v. Bishop	347 P.2d 1081	101
1973	Eastlake Community Council v. Roanoke Associates, Inc.· Dissent†	513 P.2d 36	95
1973	State v. Scheffel	514 P.2d 1052	93
1975	City of Bellevue v. Miller· Concurrence†	536 P.2d 603	90
1966	Kueckelhan v. Federal Old Line Insurance· Concurrence†	418 P.2d 443	86

Showing the 15 most-cited of 520 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 Washington Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Robert T. Hunter on?: Robert T. Hunter was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Sources

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20 years on the Washington Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).