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 2005 / Active

Stephen J. Dwyer

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Stephen J. Dwyer is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, serving since 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2005 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Dwyer authored 566 published opinions for the court (2006–2019), plus 5 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Mares v. Department of Social & Health Services (124 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. 469 of these were attributed to Dwyer 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	Mares v. Department of Social & Health Services†	182 Wash. App. 776	124
2009	Rogers v. Department of Labor & Industries†	151 Wash. App. 174	121
2009	Rogers v. Dept. of Labor & Indus.	210 P.3d 355	115
2009	State v. Bander	208 P.3d 1242	115
2015	State v. Rodriquez†	187 Wash. App. 922	82
2012	State v. Killingsworth†	166 Wash. App. 283	80
2007	Green v. Normandy Park Riviera Section Community Club, Inc.†	137 Wash. App. 665	79
2007	Green v. Normandy Park	151 P.3d 1038	78
2013	State v. Rattana Keo Phuong†	174 Wash. App. 494	75
2012	State v. Reed†	168 Wash. App. 553	75
2012	State v. Reed	278 P.3d 203	73
2010	Cornish College of the Arts v. 1000 Virginia Ltd. Partnership†	158 Wash. App. 203	72
2007	State v. Williams	150 P.3d 111	68
2007	State v. Williams†	136 Wash. App. 486	68
2009	Boguch v. Landover Corp.	224 P.3d 795	66

Showing the 15 most-cited of 581 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 Stephen J. Dwyer on?: Stephen J. Dwyer is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

20 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).