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 2006 / Served to 2014

Teresa C. Kulik

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Teresa C. Kulik was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2006–2014 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Gonzaga University

Judicial Record

In our data, Kulik authored 436 published opinions for the court (2006–2014), plus 10 dissents. Most cited: State v. Johnston (171 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. 347 of these were attributed to Kulik 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
2007	State v. Johnston†	143 Wash. App. 1	171
2008	Yurtis v. Phipps	181 P.3d 849	74
2008	Yurtis v. Phipps†	143 Wash. App. 680	74
2014	In re the Marriage of Kim†	179 Wash. App. 232	69
2008	Davies v. Holy Family Hospital†	144 Wash. App. 483	43
2007	State v. Sexsmith†	138 Wash. App. 497	43
2007	State v. Sexsmith	157 P.3d 901	42
2009	ALPHA KAPPA LAMBDA v. Wash. State Univ.	216 P.3d 451	36
2009	Fraternity v. Washington State University†	152 Wash. App. 401	36
2007	Zunino v. Rajewski†	140 Wash. App. 215	34
2008	Davies v. Holy Family Hosp.	183 P.3d 283	33
2008	State v. Wilson	181 P.3d 887	33
2008	State v. Wilson†	144 Wash. App. 166	33
2007	State v. Tyler†	138 Wash. App. 120	33
2007	Zunino v. Rajewski	165 P.3d 57	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 446 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 Teresa C. Kulik on?: Teresa C. Kulik was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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8 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).