Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State

against that. I’m for this. I’m for that,” but wait till you get the facts. … Even Jim Dolliver on
the death penalty. Dolliver would tell anybody who cared that he was against the death
penalty. When it got right down and dirty, he wrote one (supporting the death penalty.) I
mean you do what you have to do under the facts.
Hughes: And that’s what makes a good judge, isn’t it?
Dimmick: Sure it is. You bet. You don’t need to broadcast what you’re thinking.
Hughes: Would it be fair to say that some people have mischaracterized you as being too
doctrinaire, as too much of a law-and-order kind of person?
Dimmick: Probably. If they think that it’s wholesale, then I don’t think that’s true.
Hughes: What’s it like when you’re in the Temple of Justice as a member of the Supreme
Court? Do you just wander down the hall and say, “Gee Jim, let’s have a cup of tea and talk
things over.”
Dimmick: We got together every morning.
Hughes: Tell me about that.
Dimmick: Well, the boys – the boys – had coffee every morning when I first came. And
The Washington Supreme Court in 1984. From left, Hugh Rosellini, James Andersen, Bob Brachtenbach, Vernon Pearson,
Carolyn Dimmick, Robert Utter, William Williams, James Dolliver, Fred Dore.
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