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 2012 / Active

Thomas Bjorgen

Judge, Court of Appeals of Washington

Thomas Bjorgen is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Court of Appeals of Washington	–	–

Education

Washington State University
University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Bjorgen authored 146 published opinions for the court (2013–2019), plus 12 dissents. Most cited: Personal Restraint Petition Of Arthur Lewis Dove (47 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. 158 of these were attributed to Bjorgen 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
2016	Personal Restraint Petition Of Arthur Lewis Dove· Dissent†	196 Wash. App. 148	47
2013	State v. Locke†	175 Wash. App. 779	45
2014	State v. Johnson†	180 Wash. App. 318	42
2015	State Of Washington, V Alfred James Thierry Jr.†	190 Wash. App. 680	39
2016	State Of Washington, V Wyatt Taylor Seward· Dissent†	196 Wash. App. 579	35
2016	Personal Restraint Petition Of Joseph Leif Wolf· Dissent†	196 Wash. App. 496	33
2016	In Re the Estate of Mower†	193 Wash. App. 706	33
2013	State v. McWilliams†	177 Wash. App. 139	31
2013	State v. Rosas-Miranda†	176 Wash. App. 773	31
2015	State v. Lyle· Dissent†	188 Wash. App. 848	28
2013	Francis v. Department of Corrections†	178 Wash. App. 42	27
2014	Landstar Inway, Inc. v. Samrow†	181 Wash. App. 109	25
2016	Nichols v. Peterson Northwest, Inc.†	197 Wash. App. 491	23
2014	State v. Fedoruk†	184 Wash. App. 866	23
2014	City of Vancouver v. Public Employment Relations Commission†	180 Wash. App. 333	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 158 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 Thomas Bjorgen on?: Thomas Bjorgen is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Washington.

Sources

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13 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).