Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State
Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State
Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State
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Hughes: What was he like? Tell us about Chuck Carroll.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: He was frightening. He was very intimidating. A big football player, you know.<br />
A big guy. And I think I had told him I wanted to go over there. I think Bernie Lonctot, the<br />
deputy attorney general, talked with him. I’m not going to get into why I decided to go, but<br />
I went. I think Bernie called him about me, and I went over and talked to him.<br />
Hughes: What would Bernie have said to characterize your work as an assistant attorney<br />
general? Were you well thought <strong>of</strong> in the <strong>of</strong>fice? You’d done a good job?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: I think so.<br />
Hughes: What was the hallmark <strong>of</strong> your work?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: What do mean “hallmark”?<br />
Hughes: Well, your attention to detail? Good arguer?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Won the case.<br />
Hughes: And, after all, “That’s how we keep score.”<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: I went in and talked to Chuck. And he hired me. That’s all I know.<br />
Hughes: They didn’t give you any kind <strong>of</strong> classic male advice, like “Don’t get pregnant too<br />
soon”?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: No.<br />
Hughes: “You are not going to have babies and leave me in the lurch?”<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: He didn’t care. There’s another one. Somebody else can always do it.<br />
Hughes: But the divorce proctor – was that a grease-the-skids kind <strong>of</strong> job to keep the<br />
wheels <strong>of</strong> justice rolling? Did you draw any conclusions from being a divorce proctor in<br />
1955?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: … I would have an interview… We had to have grounds for divorce in those days.<br />
If a woman came in with a black eye we had grounds. And I suppose irreconcilable conflict,<br />
differences, or whatever – the catch-all phrase – worked fairly well. But anyhow, by the<br />
time I talked to them it was pretty set that it was a default. The other side had already<br />
given up. It wasn’t contested. I just had to be sure that there was inclusion, that the kids<br />
were taken care <strong>of</strong>.<br />
Hughes: Do we still have divorce proctors in superior court?<br />
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