Week 13: March 30- April 5
April 2, 1973
On this day, Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman nominated Seattle attorney Barbara T. Yanick for a newly created position on the Seattle Municipal Court. Yanick became the first woman to hold a seat on the busy court, whose three existing judges were burdened with an average of 75 cases a day.
Yanick was reelected without opposition four consecutive times. She went on to serve on the court for 17 years, retiring for health reasons in 1990, two years before her death from cancer.
April 2, 1983
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