The Superior Court of Washington for King County (more commonly, the King County Superior Court) is the largest

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state. It is based at the King County Courthouse, 516 Third Avenue, in

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, Washington. It also operates a juvenile facility and a Regional Justice Center in

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, southeast of Seattle. The court has (as of November 2018) 53 judges who have general jurisdiction to hear major civil and criminal cases. The court also has appellate jurisdiction over certain decisions of the district courts, municipal courts, and administrative tribunals.See generally Ch. 2.08 RCW.

Current judges

Notable judges

Walter B. Beals Walter Burges Beals (July 21, 1876 – September 18, 1960) was an American judge who served on the Washington Supreme Court from 1928 to 1946 and again from 1947 to 1951. He served as the chief justice of the Washington Supreme Court from 1933-1 ...

* Adam Beeler * William L. Downing * Barbara Durham * Matthew W. Hill * Faith Ireland *

Richard A. Jones Richard Anthony Jones (born 1950) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. He previously served as a deputy prosecuting attorne ...

Robert S. Lasnik Robert Stephen Lasnik (born 1951) is an American attorney and jurist, who serves as a Senior status, senior United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Educ ...

* Ricardo S. Martinez * Marsha Pechman * John S. Robinson * Stanley C. Soderland * Gary Little *

Mary Yu Mary Isabel Yu (born 1957) is an American jurist and Associate Justice of the Washington Supreme Court and former judge of the King County Superior Court. She is the state's first openly gay, Asian American, and Latina Justice. She is also t ...

References

External links

*http://www.kingcounty.gov/courts/superiorcourt.aspx

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