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 1996 / Served to 2014

Robin J. Hunt

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Robin J. Hunt was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1996–2014 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hunt authored 873 published opinions for the court (1997–2014), plus 34 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: West v. Thurston County (128 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. 629 of these were attributed to Hunt 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
2012	West v. Thurston County	275 P.3d 1200	128
1999	In Re the Marriage of Mattson	976 P.2d 157	122
2011	State v. Bertrand†	165 Wash. App. 393	91
2004	Kirby v. City of Tacoma	98 P.3d 827	86
2004	Kirby v. City of Tacoma†	124 Wash. App. 454	84
2012	State v. Grier†	168 Wash. App. 635	76
1997	Lilly v. Lynch	945 P.2d 727	71
1998	State v. Contreras	966 P.2d 915	67
2012	State v. Grier	278 P.3d 225	60
2006	State v. Colquitt· Dissent†	133 Wash. App. 789	59
1997	State v. McCorkle	945 P.2d 736	59
2010	State v. Lewis†	156 Wash. App. 230	57
2009	State v. Millan· Concurrence†	151 Wash. App. 492	57
1998	State v. Knowles	957 P.2d 797	56
2012	Fulton v. Department of Social & Health Services†	169 Wash. App. 137	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 919 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 was Robin J. Hunt on?: Robin J. Hunt was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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17 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).