Superior Court Judge
Current• Senior Judge, most experienced Superior Court Judge in Snohomish County• Snohomish County Bar Association’s 2019 Judge of the Year • Distinguished Judicial Service Award from the Washington State Association For Justice• First and only woman to reach Most Senior Judge Status on the Snohomish County Superior Court bench• First county judge to run “At Risk Youth” and “Children in Need of Services” calendars designed to protect and provide treatment for children in crisis• Judge who set up and first ran the Domestic Status/Compliance Calendar; a calendar designed to help families without lawyers navigate the legal system, help manage and diffuse high conflict domestic cases, and help reduce backlog and delays in getting family law cases to trial.• Chair of Superior Court Personnel Committee for five years; wrote and spearheaded passage of the Superior Court’s first anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policy for employees• Chair of Superior Court Family Law and Commissioners Committee for two years; played an instrumental role in obtaining funding for the fifth commissioner position to relieve seriously overcrowded dockets• Superior Court’s Representative on the Snohomish County Law Library Board for nine years; Chairman of the Board two years; helped modernize the library • Second woman Superior Court Judge in county history• Washington State Superior Court Judges Association, member for 28 years• Washington State Bar Association, member 40years• National Association of Women Judges • Superior Court Personnel Committee, current member• Superior Court Family Law and Commissioner Committee, current member
