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Rural communities in Spokane County advocated for a more rural location, and even threatened to secede and form a new county if a satisfactory site was not chosen. At the time, the north bank of the Spokane River was largely undeveloped, which appeased the rural communities, but also well-connected to the business district just across the river ...
While each county has a Superior Court, some of the less populated counties are grouped into a single district, sharing a single judge and administration. The judge for these multi-county districts rotates between the counties as needed, with each County Superior Court having its own courtroom and staff.
In Washington, there are several state courts. Judges are elected and serve four-year or six-year terms. Most judges first come to office when the governor of Washington appoints them after a vacancy is created – either by the death, resignation, retirement, or removal of a sitting judge, or when a new seat on the bench is created by the Washington State Legislature.
Kathleen O’Connor (1975): [79] First female Judge of the Superior Court of Spokane County, Washington; Gloria Ochoa-Bruck: [80] First Latino American female judge in Spokane County, Washington; Charnelle Bjelkengren: [52] First African American female to become a Judge of the Superior Court of Spokane County, Washington (2019)
Charnelle Marie Bjelkengren (born 1975) [1] is an American lawyer who has served as a judge of the Spokane County Superior Court since 2019. She is a former nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington.
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Free Law Project has a number of initiatives, including: CourtListener.com, [7] which provides a searchable and API-accessible website with court dockets, 900,000 minutes of oral argument recordings, more than eight thousand judges, and more than three million opinions. All of the opinions on Court Listener are interlinked by a citator, and the ...
Oct. 2—A state appeals court judge who stung Spokane County prosecutors and police with accusations of racist enforcement of the law has rejected calls that he recuse himself from ruling on ...