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The Seattle Municipal Court serves the City of Seattle.. According to Seattle City Ordinance 3.33.010, "[T]he purpose of the Court is to try violations of City ordinances and all other actions brought to enforce or recover license penalties or forfeitures declared or given by any such ordinances and perform such other duties as may be authorized by law."
Cathy Moore is an American lawyer and politician elected to represent District 5 of the Seattle City Council. She was a King County Superior Court judge from 2017 to 2022. Legal career
In October 2024, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the City Attorney's Office, alleging that the memo disqualifying Vaddadi removed a sitting judge off the bench. [13] [14] In the letter, the ACLU stated that Davidson disqualifying Vaddadi "is undermining the democratic will of Seattle voters." [13]
The Mayor of Seattle is head of the executive branch of city government, and the Seattle City Council, led by a Council President, is the legislative branch. The mayor of Seattle and two of the nine members of the Seattle City Council are elected at large, rather than by geographic subdivisions. The remaining seven council positions are elected ...
Judges Presiding Judge Patrick Oishi January 2011 January 13, 2025 Christine Gregoire (D) Seattle University: Asst. Presiding Judge Mary E. Roberts January 2003 January 13, 2025 Gary Locke (D) University of Washington: Chief Civil Court Judge Tanya Thorp April 1, 2014 January 13, 2025 Jay Inslee (D) Seattle University: Chief Criminal Court ...
In 1982, she joined the Seattle City Attorney's Office and was appointed Special Prosecutor in 1984. Seattle Mayor Charles Royer appointed Madsen in 1988 to the Seattle Municipal Court bench. After serving as the Presiding Judge of the Seattle Municipal Court, she ran for the Washington Supreme Court in 1992 to fill the vacancy left by retiring ...
She was in private practice in Seattle from 1981 to 1988. She was an adjunct professor at University of Puget Sound from 1983 to 1987. She was a judge on the King County Superior Court from 1988 to 1999.
Lasnik served as a superior court judge on the King County Superior Court from 1990 to 1998. While on the Superior Court bench, Lasnik made important rulings involving the Seattle Mariners' stadium and in 1995 ruled that the University of Washington regents violated the Open Meetings Act in their search for a new president.