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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

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Sheryl Gordon McCloud

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Sheryl Gordon McCloud is a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1955 · age 71
Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Education

SUNY at Albany

Judicial Record

In our data, McCloud authored 61 published opinions for the court (2013–2019), plus 31 dissents and 47 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Lindsay (277 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. 139 of these were attributed to McCloud 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
2014	State v. Lindsay†	180 Wash. 2d 423	277
2016	State v. Rich†	184 Wash. 2d 897	274
2015	State v. O'Dell†	183 Wash. 2d 680	264
2013	State v. Dye· Concurrence†	178 Wash. 2d 541	170
2014	State v. Witherspoon· Concurrence†	180 Wash. 2d 875	167
2014	In re the Marriage of Chandola†	180 Wash. 2d 632	163
2014	FutureSelect Portfolio Management, Inc. v. Tremont Group Holdings, Inc.· Concurrence†	180 Wash. 2d 954	158
2017	State v. Clark· Dissent†	187 Wash. 2d 641	156
2015	State v. Condon†	182 Wash. 2d 307	138
2014	Kumar v. Gate Gourmet, Inc.†	180 Wash. 2d 481	138
2015	Trujillo v. Northwest Trustee Services, Inc.†	183 Wash. 2d 820	135
2014	SentinelC3, Inc. v. Hunt†	181 Wash. 2d 127	130
2013	Jones v. City of Seattle†	179 Wash. 2d 322	128
2018	State v. Linville†	423 P.3d 842	121
2015	State v. Walker· Concurrence†	182 Wash. 2d 463	120

Showing the 15 most-cited of 139 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 is Sheryl Gordon McCloud on?: Sheryl Gordon McCloud is a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Sources

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13 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).