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The Washington citizenry adopted a Constitutional Amendment on November 5, 1968, which authorized the legislature to create a Court of Appeals and to define its composition and jurisdiction. On May 12, 1969, the legislature passed the enabling act that established a Court of Appeals with three divisions and a total of twelve judges.
The Washington Supreme Court is the state supreme court of Washington. It is the highest court in the state and is based in the Temple of Justice at the Washington State Capitol campus in the state capital of Olympia. Almost all the cases that the Court hears are appeals from the decisions of the Washington Court of Appeals. The court has ...
Governor Jay Inslee appointed Diaz to the King County Superior Court in December 2017, effective January 22, 2018. [3] [4] As a judge, Diaz presided over approximately four dozen trial in all types of criminal, civil and domestic matters. Governor Inslee appointed Diaz to Division I of the Washington Court of Appeals, effective September 2022 ...
Courts of Washington include: State courts of Washington. The headquarters of the Washington Supreme Court in Olympia. Washington Supreme Court [1] Washington Court of Appeals (3 divisions) [2] Washington Superior Courts (39 courts of general jurisdiction, one for each county) [3] Washington District Courts (Courts of limited jurisdiction) [4]
First Asian American, Latino American, and openly lesbian (female) (Washington Supreme Court): Mary Yu (1993) in 2014 [25] [26] First (African American) openly lesbian female (superior court): Helen Whitener (1998) in 2015 [27] [28] First African American female (Washington Court of Appeals; Judge and Chief Judge): Lori K. Smith in 2018 [29]
From 2000 to 2016, she was a public defender with the Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho. [3] In January 2016, Governor Jay Inslee appointed her as a judge of the Washington Court of Appeals to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of acting chief judge Stephen Brown. [4] She had a formal investiture ceremony on February 19 ...
Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file; Special pages; Search. Search. Appearance. ... 1963) is a State Judge of the Washington Court of Appeals, Division III ...
Pearson was appointed by Governor Daniel J. Evans to the newly created Washington Court of Appeals in 1969. Pearson authored the first Court of Appeals opinion in the initial volume of the appellate reports, State v. Tate, 1 Wn. App. 1 (1969). [4] In 1982, Governor John Spellman appointed Pearson as an associate justice of the Washington ...