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 1991 / Served to 2010

Susan R. Agid

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Susan R. Agid was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–2010 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Judicial Record

In our data, Agid authored 630 published opinions for the court (1987–2010), plus 11 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Preserve Our Islands v. Shorelines Hearings Bd. (514 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. 281 of these were attributed to Agid 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
2006	Preserve Our Islands v. Shorelines Hearings Bd.	137 P.3d 31	514
1993	City of Seattle v. Heatley	854 P.2d 658	190
1997	State v. Garcia-Martinez	944 P.2d 1104	186
1991	VanDam v. Department of Social & Health Services	815 P.2d 277	111
1991	White v. Kent Medical Center, Inc.	810 P.2d 4	100
2008	State v. Berg†	147 Wash. App. 923	87
2001	Miller v. Likins†	109 Wash. App. 140	86
2002	State v. McGill	47 P.3d 173	85
2002	State v. McGill†	112 Wash. App. 95	85
2008	State v. Berg	198 P.3d 529	83
2008	Rodriguez v. Loudeye Corp.†	144 Wash. App. 709	83
1999	Unigard Insurance v. Leven	983 P.2d 1155	82
2001	Miller v. Likins	34 P.3d 835	80
1992	State v. Alexander	822 P.2d 1250	80
1994	Bulzomi v. Department of Labor & Industries	864 P.2d 996	79

Showing the 15 most-cited of 652 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 Susan R. Agid on?: Susan R. Agid was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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19 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).