1. Name as it will appear on the ballot
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2. Office sought (include office, jurisdiction, position/district number):
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Judge, Washington State Court of Appeals, Division 1, District 1, Postion 1 |
3. Are you the incumbent? Yes No
4. How long have you resided in this district/city?
5. How long have you resided in King County?
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6. Is the office sought partisan or nonpartisan? Partisan Nonpartisan
CAMPAIGN CONTACTS
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Committee to Retain Judge Ken Grosse |
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1. Beginning with the most recent position, please list public offices which you have held. Include positions on appointive Boards or Commissions.
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Presiding Chief Judge, Chief Judge, numerous committees
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2. If you ran for public office but were not elected, please list those races below:
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In this section, we are seeking responses that reflect the four ratings criteria: involvement, effectiveness, character, and knowledge. These are defined as follows:
1. In a page or less, why are you running for this office? (Note: the interview committee will be given a copy of this statement before your interview; at the beginning of your interview you will have the opportunity to expand on this statement in any way you wish.)
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Experience matters. Judges matter. The law is the glue for our diverse and complex society. People look to the law and judges to resolve the difficult issues; family matters, equality and fairness in society’s institutions, application of the criminal law and process, accountability in the use of the public’s natural resources, and effective access to the system of justice. It falls to judges to resolve the disputes that arise over these and many other issues. It requires legal and life experience to fairly and effectively perform this job. I am the only candidate with that experience.
My life and my career have been devoted to preparing me to play the role I currently enjoy as a judge on the state Court of Appeals. Not the least of that experience is the 19 plus years I have spent on the court. In those years I have authored over 1105 opinions and participated in deciding an additional 1960. Before going on the bench I spent almost two decades in the private and public practice of law. My private practice emphasized constitutional, administrative and employment law. My public practice included serving as Chief of Staff and Counsel to Washington’s Governor, Counsel to the State Senate, and as an Assistant Attorney General, including a stint as Chief of the Attorney General’s Law Enforcement Assistance Section. On the bench, I have served in leadership positions as Chief Judge and Presiding Chief Judge. I have also served on virtually every commission studying problems and reforms to the judicial system, including privacy and access to judicial information.
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2. Describe your most important personal characteristics or traits as they relate to the office you seek.
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Intelligence, knowledge of the law, diverse personal and professional experience, and at the risk of committing the sin of pride, some wisdom. |
3. Please describe in sufficient detail, one to three accomplishments or contributions of which you are most proud. These examples should illustrate effective skills and capabilities you think apply to the office you are seeking. These accomplishments may have occurred at any time in your personal, professional, or public life.
4. Please list or describe your current and past activities in the community in which you have acquired skills that relate to the office you seek. Include your role in the activity and the year(s) in which you were involved. Involvement consists of many areas such as family, neighborhood, community, employment, or public life.
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I am not sure how to answer this except to attach the following:
Personal: · Ken is a native of the Pacific Northwest. Born in Portland, Oregon in 1943, he grew up in Ballard and Edmonds. · He received both his bachelor's degree and his law degree from the University of Washington, graduating from law school in 1968. He was Project Editor of the University of Washington Law Review and a Nelson T. Hartson Law Scholar.
Judicial Experience: · Currently serving his 20th year on Division One of the Court of Appeals, Ken was appointed in December 1984 and has been re-elected four times. · He has twice been Presiding Chief Judge of the three divisions of the Court of Appeals, and Chief Judge of Division One. · Ken has authored over 332 published opinions, 773 unpublished opinions, and participated in an additional 1960 decisions of the Court, plus numerous decisions on motions and cases heard without oral argument. · He has served as a Justice Pro Tem on the State Supreme Court, and as Chief Justice Pro Tem. · He is a contributor to Black's Law Dictionary (7th ed. 1999) and the author of an article "Wolves in Sheep's Clothing" that appeared in The Scribes Journal of Legal Writinq. · Active in judicial administration, Ken has served on numerous boards and commissions, including the Board for Judicial Administration; the Judicial Council; the Washington Courts 2000 Commission; Co-chair of the Commission on Justice, Efficiency and Accountability; and for the last 14 years, Vice-chair of the Judicial Information System Committee, overseeing the judiciary's technology projects. · As Chair of the Data Dissemination Committee Ken has played a key role in the development and administration of the judiciary's policies for insuring public access to computer-based judicial information while safeguarding legitimate concerns for privacy on the part of Washington's citizens.
Professional Experience: · Judicial law clerk to the late Justice Frank P. Weaver of the Washington State Supreme Court - 1968-69. · Assistant Attorney General from 1969 through 1972, where he worked principally in the Education Division representing a number of community colleges and Western Washington University. · Ken was also Chief of the Attorney General's Law Enforcement Section, and headed this state's Organized Crime Intelligence Unit. · From 1973-75, he was Minority Counsel to the Washington State Senate. · He entered private practice in 1972, joining the Seattle law firm of Keller, Rohrback, Waldo & Hiscock in 1973. In 1978 he formed the law firm of Watson, Grosse & Kelly, and later, Hodge, Grosse, Logerwell & Farley. · Ken's law practice encompassed virtually every area of the law from litigation to tax work, including legislation, administrative law, labor law, education law, constitutional law, insurance defense, and personal injury. · Ken left private practice in late 1983 to join Governor John Spellman as his counsel. He later became the Governor's Chief of Staff.
Other information: · Ken and his wife of 42 years, Morey, a lawyer and former partner at the Ryan Law Firm in Seattle, have two grown sons, three grandsons, currently divide their time between Seattle and Leavenworth, where they own and operate a small business, employing as many as 11 people during the tourist season, and Morey works in real estate sales. · While his sons were growing up Ken was active in youth sports organizations, other youth activities, the PTA and other community organizations, including serving as President of the Montlake Community Club in Seattle. · Ken taught business law courses at Shoreline Community College, and for five years an Introduction to Law course at Lakeside High School in Seattle. · When not working, Ken and Morey enjoy the backcountry around Leavenworth with their five horses and four Border Collies, plus one mutt that wandered in.
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The job is simple in description, deciding cases appealed to the court . This involves application of the law to the facts as determined by the court below. It requires a thorough knowledge of of the law, both civil and criminal, as a means to evaluate the arguments being advanced by the parties, as a means to directing the significant legal research that may be needed to understand the issue and determine its outcome. Frequently, understanding the case before the panel, both legally and factually requires experience, both life experience and professional experience. It this understanding that permits an appellate judge to guide his or her law clerks throught their processes and research, to participate in the deliberative process with the other panel members, and to draft opinions informing the parties and the public of the case, the issues and the outcome. Understanding and comprehension, seeing the issues in context in the broadest sense, these are the most important attributes or abilities that one can bring to the task. |
EDUCATION BACKGROUND SUMMARY
The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report is distributed to voters in print and/or on our website. It includes a summary of the candidate’s education. Please summarize your education in 120 characters (letters, punctuation, and space all combined). The League will delete material that exceeds the space limit by beginning with the last entry. Suggested order is (degree) (subject) (school) (year, if desired).
Note: If this question is left blank the League will not include education information in your candidate profile.
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University of Washington, BA 1965 University of Washington, JD 1968 |
FOR PUBLICATION IN CANDIDATE EVALUATION REPORT
The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report also includes a summary of each candidate’s civic involvement. Please summarize your civic involvement in the space below. We will make every attempt to include the information in the Candidate Evaluation Report as submitted. Due to space restrictions in the Report, your response is limited to 500 characters (letters, punctuation, and spaces all combined). It is important that you list your involvement beginning with the most important and ending with the least important. If you exceed the length of response permitted, or if the League should find it necessary to shorten responses for publication purposes, deletions will be made beginning with the last item listed.
Note: This information will appear verbatim on the League’s Candidate Evaluation Report. If this question is left blank, the Municipal League will not include information on your civic involvement in the Report.
Check here if you would like the Municipal League to copy the first 500 characters from Question 4 to paste into this section.
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Finished!
If at all possible, send your response to the Municipal League electronically as an attachment, or insert it into an e-mail message (rebecca@munileague.org). Mail and fax numbers are listed below. If the League has not contacted you to schedule an interview, please call the League office at your earliest convenience.
Don’t forget to send the following to the Municipal League: a resume, a photo, campaign literature, and, if you are an incumbent, constituent newsletters and other materials. Please use the check-off list on the cover sheet of this packet to indicate which items you have sent.
Candidate Evaluation Coordinator: Rebecca Cooper
Seattle, WA 98104-1614 Fax: 425-671-0506 Website: www.munileague.org