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Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1928 / Served to 1948

William J. Millard

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

William J. Millard was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1928. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1883–1986
Tenure: 1928–1948 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1928	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Millard authored 794 published opinions for the court (1929–1948), plus 252 dissents and 63 concurrences. Most cited: Blanchard v. Golden Age Brewing Co. (129 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. 30 of these were attributed to Millard 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
1936	Blanchard v. Golden Age Brewing Co.· Dissent	63 P.2d 397	129
1943	Chandler v. Washington Toll Bridge Authority· Dissent	137 P.2d 97	128
1942	In Re the Welfare of Hudson	126 P.2d 765	116
1941	State Ex Rel. MacRi v. City of Bremerton	111 P.2d 612	115
1937	Occidental Life Insurance v. Powers· Concurrence	74 P.2d 27	74
1941	In Re the Eligibility of the Persons Employed at the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co.· Dissent	110 P.2d 877	73
1940	State v. Furth	104 P.2d 925	67
1940	In Re Binge's Estate	105 P.2d 689	66
1934	Ajax v. Gregory· Dissent	32 P.2d 560	65
1945	Herzog v. Herzog	161 P.2d 142	62
1945	Hafer v. Spaeth· Concurrence	156 P.2d 408	61
1941	J. L. Cooper & Co. v. Anchor Securities Co.	113 P.2d 845	61
1944	Lane v. Department of Labor & Industries· Dissent	151 P.2d 440	60
1939	Washington Recorder Publishing Co. v. Ernst	91 P.2d 718	60
1941	Decano v. State· Dissent	110 P.2d 627	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,110 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 J. Millard on?: William J. Millard was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Sources

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20 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).