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

Ronald E. Cox

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Ronald E. Cox 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, Cox authored 770 published opinions for the court (1995–2017), plus 15 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Marriage of Fiorito (104 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. 536 of these were attributed to Cox 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
2002	In Re Marriage of Fiorito	50 P.3d 298	104
2002	In re the Marriage of Fiorito†	112 Wash. App. 657	104
1995	State v. Fiallo-Lopez	899 P.2d 1294	95
2015	In re the Detention of H.N.†	188 Wash. App. 744	92
1996	State v. Hayes	914 P.2d 788	91
2016	Marisa Bavand v. Onewest Bank Fsb†	196 Wash. App. 813	88
2001	Washington v. Boeing Co.	19 P.3d 1041	75
2014	GMAC v. Everett Chevrolet, Inc.†	179 Wash. App. 126	70
2001	State v. Ross	26 P.3d 298	67
2000	Washington v. Boeing Co.†	105 Wash. App. 1	67
2001	State v. Ross†	106 Wash. App. 876	63
2000	Hwang v. McMahill	15 P.3d 172	62
2000	Hwang v. McMahill†	103 Wash. App. 945	62
2005	Cunningham v. Reliable Concrete Pumping, Inc.†	126 Wash. App. 222	61
2005	Cunningham v. Reliable Concrete Pumping, Inc.	108 P.3d 147	60

Showing the 15 most-cited of 785 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 Ronald E. Cox on?: Ronald E. Cox 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).