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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1942 / Served to 1955

Thomas Eugene Grady

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Thomas Eugene Grady was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1942. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1880 · age 146
Tenure: 1942–1955 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1942	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Grady authored 239 published opinions for the court (1942–1955), plus 74 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Pierce v. Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Ass'n (113 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. 92 of these were attributed to Grady 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
1953	Pierce v. Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Ass'n· Concurrence†	260 P.2d 765	113
1951	State v. Meyer	226 P.2d 204	108
1952	State Ex Rel. Evans v. Brotherhood of Friends· Dissent†	247 P.2d 787	99
1944	Lynch v. Department of Labor & Industries· Dissent	145 P.2d 265	73
1944	Lane v. Department of Labor & Industries	151 P.2d 440	60
1945	State v. Kosanke	160 P.2d 541	58
1943	Home Insurance v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.	140 P.2d 507	57
1953	Hutton v. Martin· Dissent†	252 P.2d 581	52
1944	Luellen v. City of Aberdeen	148 P.2d 849	52
1953	Bradshaw v. City of Seattle· Concurrence†	264 P.2d 265	49
1945	Ellern v. Superior Court	160 P.2d 639	48
1949	Bill v. Gattavara· Dissent	209 P.2d 457	46
1949	Randles v. Washington State Liquor Control Board	206 P.2d 1209	46
1950	Swan v. O'LEARY	225 P.2d 199	45
1943	Mitchell v. Consolidated School District No. 201· Concurrence	135 P.2d 79	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 333 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 was Thomas Eugene Grady on?: Thomas Eugene Grady was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

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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).