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Charles Johnson | |
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| Associate Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court | |
| Assumed office January 1, 1991 | |
| Preceded by | Keith M. Callow |
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| Born | Charles William Johnson March 16,1951 Tacoma,Washington,U.S. |
| Education | University of Washington (BA) Seattle University (JD) |
Charles William Johnson (born March 16,1951) [1] is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Washington Supreme Court since 1991.
Johnson graduated from the University of Puget Sound School of Law (now Seattle University School of Law) in 1976,and was the first graduate of that institution to be elected to the Washington Supreme Court. He took his undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in 1974. He is a graduate of Curtis High School in University Place,Washington.
Johnson has served on the Washington Supreme Court longer than any other current Justice. He was first elected to the Washington Supreme Court in 1990,gaining re-election in 1996,2002,and 2008. He was re-elected again in 2014 and 2020 and his currently serving his sixth term,which will run until 2027.
In October 2018,Johnson wrote a concurrence when the majority abolished the state's death penalty because they found its racially biased imposition violated the Constitution of Washington. [2] [3]
He was born in Tacoma,Washington,and resides in Gig Harbor,Washington.[ citation needed ]
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