Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State

Dimmick: It’s totally amazing. Absolutely amazing. And you know the way he did it was so
timely. He got right on the Internet started telling everybody to get involved with him, give
him 25 bucks. It’s just totally amazing what he did.
Hughes: Judge Smith, although he had been a Hillary Clinton supporter, told me he was
impressed by Senator Obama’s legal scholarship, that he had a fine legal mind.
Dimmick: Yeah, Harvard, yeah.
Hughes: He’s a constitutional scholar.
Dimmick: Yes.
Hughes: So this is a landmark for America?
Dimmick: It’s amazing.
Hughes: And how did you feel about these bright women in high places, like Hillary
Rodham Clinton and Condi Rice?
Dimmick: I like to see them up there. And I’m sure that Obama is going to have some
around him as well. (Editor’s Note: Right after this interview, the president-elect nominated
Sen. Clinton as his secretary of state.)
Hughes: Do you think we’re getting close to the day when we’re going to see a woman as
president of the United States?
Dimmick: Oh I don’t. My first question is “Why would they want it?”
Hughes: Why not? Why would you want to be on the state Supreme Court, judge?
Dimmick: It’s like my granddaughter, Madeline, who is brighter than bright. My
granddaughter is in her second year at San Francisco, USF. And she’s already got junior
standing, so she’s going to get out a year earlier. She’s going to go to law school. She
wants to go where they have a double major because she’s interested in foreign policy and
foreign trade. And she majored in French, and speaks French like a native. She’s traveled
everywhere. She’s the one I’m taking to Ireland. She said to me, “You know, I think I could
be president.” And I said, “I think you could, too, Madeline, but why would you want to?
There are so many other things you can do with your life.” Like she’s already traveled to
Africa and helped out there, and she’s going to go again this summer. And she’s just so well
rounded.
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