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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Washington / Joined 2014 / Active

Robert Lawrence-Berrey

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Robert Lawrence-Berrey 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

Whitman College
Willamette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Lawrence-Berrey authored 34 published opinions for the court (2015–2017), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State Of Washington v. Adrian Munoz Rivera (72 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. 38 of these were attributed to Lawrence-Berrey 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. Adrian Munoz Rivera†	190 Wash. App. 870	72
2016	Mark Hanna, et ux v. Allan Margitan, et ux†	193 Wash. App. 596	49
2017	Robert Repin v. State of Washington and Washington State University· Concurrence†	198 Wash. App. 243	43
2015	Jessica M. Goodeill v. Madison Real Estate†	191 Wash. App. 88	26
2016	State of Washington v. Francisco Gonzalez-Gonzalez†	193 Wash. App. 683	25
2017	In re the Marriage of: Ellen Doneen and James Doneen†	197 Wash. App. 941	24
2015	State of Washington v. Michael Duke Coombes†	191 Wash. App. 241	23
2017	State of Washington v. John J. Munzanreder†	199 Wash. App. 162	21
2015	In Re the Estate of Lowe†	191 Wash. App. 216	17
2015	FPA Crescent Associates, LLC v. Jamie's LLC†	190 Wash. App. 666	16
2016	James C. Blair, II v. Northwest Trustee Services†	193 Wash. App. 18	14
2016	Anna Shamaya Juarez v. Abdon Chavez Juarez, II· Dissent†	195 Wash. App. 880	13
2016	Kittitas County v. Sky Allphin†	195 Wash. App. 355	13
2016	Rockrock Group, LLC v. Value Logic, LLC†	194 Wash. App. 904	13
2015	Benton County v. Donna Zink†	191 Wash. App. 269	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 38 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 Robert Lawrence-Berrey on?: Robert Lawrence-Berrey is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

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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).