Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State

Dimmick: No!
Hughes: You’re a good writer, judge.
Dimmick: I don’t want to write.
Hughes: As for newspapers, which we’ve both worked for, isn’t it an awful thing that the
P-I might close?
Dimmick: It’s totally amazing. I can’t believe that this would not be a two-newspaper city.
Hughes: And you grew up in an era that had the Seattle Star too, so this was a threenewspaper
city in the 1940s.
Dimmick: That is correct.
Hughes: Are you on the Internet all the time, judge?
Dimmick: Yes. I’m reading an opinion from the Supreme Court that just came out. … But I
still take the paper. I take The Times every day and read it. It’s quicker than going through
the (Internet). But my son-in-law reads the New York Times (on line) and he’s always
flashing me tidbits to make sure I know about it.
Hughes: How would you like to be remembered?
Dimmick: Old. A hundred years old. How about that?
Hughes: That would be fun. And I always liked that scene in Huckleberry Finn where Huck —
Dimmick: Ends up watching his own funeral?
Hughes: Yes, I mean you could hear what people were going to say about you and be alive
to enjoy it. What do you think they’ll say about Judge Carolyn Dimmick?
Dimmick: She tried hard.
Hughes: Well, I think you succeeded.
Dimmick: Did her job to the best.
END OF INTERVIEW
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