Superior Court Position 22

For King County Superior Court Judge Position 22, there are two qualified candidates on the ballot. Juvenile Court Commissioner Julia Garratt is running against former UW Law School Adjunct Professor Holly Hill.

Garratt took the August Primary Election with a plurality just over 36%, Hill got just under 4% less of the vote.

The Voting for Judges website has more information on the two candidates than I could find anywhere else. Again for me this race boils down to which candidate's experience will likely make for a better Superior Court Judge. Julia Garratt has been a Judge Pro Tem in King County Superior Court for the past 10 years. Holly Hill was an Adjunct Professor at the UW Law School for 20 years.

Neither of these candidates has much courtroom experience in Superior Court. Julia Garratt lists 50 trials in Superior Court (although its not clear if this is just the number of trials at that level in which she participated as an attorney or both as an attorney and as a Judge Pro Tem) while Holly Hill lists just 15 trails in Superior Court. Garratt has presided more than 1ooo days in Superior Court as a Judge Pro Tem.

I personally find that Julia Garratt's more extensive experience working in the Superior Courts gives her the edge.

I am voting for Julia Garratt for King County Superior Court Judge Position 22.