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Washington Courts: Press Release Detail
High School Students to Compete in State Mock Trial Championship Finals
March 20, 2002
This weekend, more than 200 students will gather at the Thurston County Courthouse in Olympia to compete in a three-day, five-trial round during the 2002 YMCA Youth and Government Mock Trial Program finals competition.
Beginning on Friday evening (March 22) twenty high school teams will argue a fictional vehicular homicide case entitled State of Washington v. Ogden Browne before judges and attorneys. More than thirty judges from across Washington State have volunteered for the event, with Supreme Court Justice Susan J. Owens presiding over the final championship round, scheduled for 11 a.m. on Sunday morning.
The following high school teams have qualified for finals based on their placing at district competitions held statewide in March:
The competition is part of the YMCA's Youth and Government program. Co-sponsors include the Administrative Office of the Courts, the Superior and District & Municipal Court Judges' Associations and others.
Program Contacts: Judge William Downing, Mock Trial Program Chair 206-296-9362 or Jason Leggett, YMCA Mock Trial Coordinator 360-534-0155.
Judges and Commissioners participating in the 2002 Mock Trial Competition
March 22-24, 2002
Thurston County Courthouse, Olympia
- Judge George Bowden, Snohomish County Superior Court
- Commissioner Brett Buckley, Thurston County District Court
- Judge Cheryl B. Carey, King County Superior Court
- Judge Paula Casey, Thurston County Superior Court
- Judge Susan Dubuisson, Thurston County District Court
- Judge Judith R. Eiler, Federal Way Division, KCDC
- Judge Ellen Fair, Snohomish County Superior Court
- Judge Janet E. Garrow, Bellevue Division, KCDC
- Judge Douglas Goelz, South District Court, (Pacific County)
- Judge Kathryn Guykema, Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals
- Former Commissioner Anne C. Harper, King County District Court
- Judge Ernest A. Heller, Lakewood Municipal Court
- Judge Bruce W. Hilyer, King County Superior Court
- Judge Mark Huth, Jefferson County District Court
- Judge David Kenworthy, Pierce County District Court
- Judge Linda Krese, Snohomish County Superior Court
- Judge Thomas J. Majhan, Jefferson County Superior Court
- Judge Craig Matheson, Benton/Franklin Superior Court
- Judge Chuck McCullough, Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals
- Judge Larry E. McKeeman, Snohomish County Superior Court
- Judge Charles R. Meyer, Snohomish County District Court
- Commissioner Tracy Mitchell, Lewis County Superior Court
- Justice Susan J. Owens, Washington Supreme Court
- Judge Christine Pomeroy, Thurston County Superior Court
- Commissioner Kimberley D. Prochnau, King County Superior Court
- Judge Jeffrey M. Ramsdell, King County Superior Court
- Judge Rebekah R. Ross, Office of Administrative Hearings
- Judge Timothy P. Ryan, South Division, SCDC
- Judge Carol A. Schapira, King County Superior Court
- Judge Catherine Shaffer, King County Superior Court
- Judge Clifford Stilz, Thurston County District Court
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