New 'legacy' honor for first woman justice

March 25, 2009

Washington's state Supreme Court was an all-male bastion until the arrival of Carolyn Dimmick back in 1981, nearly a year before Sandra Day O'Connor joined the U.S. high court. Dimmick, still going strong at 79 as a federal judge, is honored in a new oral history and profile from The Legacy Project.

The treatment includes a full oral history interview, a profile, a bio box, photos (including Dimmick and O'Connor in the same frame), and more. It's free ... and a mouse click away. See here ...

The Legacy Project is a part of the Washington State Heritage Center planned for the Capitol Campus in Olympia and online. Dimmick is the fourth in a series penned by chief historian John Hughes. Previously, the project did pieces on rocker Krist Novoselic, pioneering newswoman Adele Ferguson, and the state's first African-American Supreme Court justice, Charles Z. Smith. The Novoselic story has gotten thousands of hits since being written up in Rolling Stone mag.
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