Bipartisan support grows for more geographic diversity on state Supreme Court

OLYMPIA–Governor Inslee made his appointment this week to the fill the vacancy created on the state Supreme Court by the retirement of Chief Justice Fairhurst. Although his selection of Whatcom County Superior Court Judge Raquel Montoya-Lewis was a historic first, many on the east side of the state had hoped the Governor would appoint one of the highly qualified applicants from Eastern Washington....