How do judges of the Washington Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1985 / Served to 1988

William Cassius Goodloe III

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

William Cassius Goodloe III was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1919–1997
Tenure: 1985–1988 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Goodloe authored 53 published opinions for the court (1985–2005), plus 19 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Guloy (721 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. 31 of these were attributed to Goodloe 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
1985	State v. Guloy· Concurrence†	705 P.2d 1182	721
1987	State v. Thomas	743 P.2d 816	629
2005	State v. Ammons	718 P.2d 796	422
1986	State v. Stroud	720 P.2d 436	292
1986	Bering v. Share· Dissent†	721 P.2d 918	256
1988	Allingham v. City of Seattle	749 P.2d 160	224
1987	McDaniels v. Carlson	738 P.2d 254	210
1987	State v. Schaaf· Dissent†	743 P.2d 240	188
1987	City of Tacoma v. Taxpayers of City of Tacoma· Dissent†	743 P.2d 793	139
1986	Nast v. Michels	730 P.2d 54	120
1986	Addleman v. Board of Prison Terms and Paroles	730 P.2d 1327	119
1986	State v. Armstrong· Dissent†	723 P.2d 1111	111
1986	Tyson v. Tyson· Concurrence†	727 P.2d 226	106
1987	State v. Coates· Concurrence†	735 P.2d 64	99
1988	State v. Ford· Dissent†	755 P.2d 806	98

Showing the 15 most-cited of 82 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 William Cassius Goodloe III on?: William Cassius Goodloe III was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Sources

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3 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).