Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State
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and my mother would say, “How can the two <strong>of</strong> you argue on the same side?” … My father<br />
by then had been running a small business. He bought a boat moorings down on the Canal.<br />
And he was always trying to remove the worn out houseboats. He had to get permits all the<br />
time through the city and it was driving him nuts trying to get them.<br />
Hughes: This is the 1940s?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Yes.<br />
Hughes: So did politics matter to you as a college student?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: No, it wasn’t a big deal. I mean I wasn’t a Young Republican in college or anything<br />
like that. I didn’t get involved in politics until I got my job with the (King County) Prosecuting<br />
Attorney’s <strong>of</strong>fice. Well, I was in the Attorney General’s Office before that, working for Don<br />
Eastvold, who was running for governor, and that’s when politics became interesting.<br />
Hughes: Let’s go back to when you’re a junior at the University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Washington</strong>. You’re still<br />
undecided on a major. You’re thinking about sociology or social work or something like that.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Right.<br />
Hughes: And if you jump ship and go to law school you can get your B.A. after one year <strong>of</strong><br />
law school.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: And I talked to my adviser, who was very much against it.<br />
Hughes: Who was that?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: I do not remember his name. It may come to me later.<br />
Hughes: But he was against it?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: He thought it was a waste <strong>of</strong> a good spot in law school. He said, “You know you’re<br />
going to get married.” It was the old saw again: “Why would you go and take a place that a<br />
man would have?” And I always felt, “He should see me now!” I worked my whole life.<br />
But anyway, he said, “Well if you’re going to go, you’re going to have to take these<br />
requirements.” And so I had to take a lot <strong>of</strong> history. I had to catch up with two or three<br />
history classes and a psychology class, and a few other things that he made me take. But<br />
what decided me to go to law school was I took a business law class. Economics and<br />
business; that was my minor. And I loved it. I just got it. I got it really well.<br />
Hughes: What was there that you really liked?<br />
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