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: In one <strong>of</strong> these clippings from your early career as a district judge, you tell a<br />
reporter that you were thinking about taking up golf. Did you ever do that?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: I was thinking about doing it. I was resisting it forever. I can’t believe I didn’t<br />
really take it up.<br />
Hughes: (Looking for the clipping) By the way, this picture from The <strong>Washington</strong> High<br />
Bench biography <strong>of</strong> you in 1981 makes you look very, very somber, when you really aren’t<br />
that way. Is this the image you wanted portrayed?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: I didn’t care.<br />
Hughes: What do you think <strong>of</strong> this book that Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Sheldon did about High Bench?<br />
Have you read it?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Yes, I’ve read it.<br />
Hughes: I’m sad that he’s dead because I never had a chance to meet him. I thought the<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>iles <strong>of</strong> the justices were really well done, that he really did his homework.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: He did. He came over and interviewed us one by one. And he did a lot <strong>of</strong><br />
research without input <strong>of</strong> the judges. He did a lot <strong>of</strong> graphs and analyzed who voted for<br />
what. That kind <strong>of</strong> thing.<br />
Hughes: (Still sorting through clippings) There’s some great stuff here. One <strong>of</strong> the best<br />
parts <strong>of</strong> my job is that I get to work with some really great researchers. Here’s an article<br />
from the Queen City Suburbanite <strong>of</strong> 1969.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Good grief. I don’t even remember it.<br />
Hughes: It features Al Rosellini and John Spellman having a debate in a cartoon on the<br />
front cover. And also an interview with Judge <strong>Carolyn</strong> <strong>Dimmick</strong>: You’re sitting in your<br />
“attractive <strong>of</strong>fice” in the Northeast District Court building in Redmond. And they’re talking<br />
to this “beautiful, vital woman.” “One gets the feel <strong>of</strong> her competency,” it says.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Gee, I never even read that article.<br />
Hughes: And we learn <strong>of</strong> “her terrific interest in life. She runs to meet it. Behind her is<br />
a painting <strong>of</strong> her two children. … There are other paintings in the room, and s<strong>of</strong>t music is<br />
a background for conversation.” And I love this part, “Her dress, her mannerism and her<br />
voice are all thoroughly feminine.”<br />
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