Charles w johnson biography

Associate Chief Justice Charles W. Johnson

Justice Charles W. Johnson was sworn-in to the Washington State Supreme Court in January 1991. He won re-election for a second term in 1996, a third term in 2002, and a fourth term in 2008.

He is now the most senior justice on the court, and Associate Chief Justice. Justice Johnson was born in Tacoma. He attended Curtis High School, and graduated from the University of Washington in 1974.

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While working full-time in a Tacoma lumber mill, he attended the University of Puget Sound School of Law (now Seattle University School of Law) graduating in 1976.

Justice Johnson is the first graduate of the Seattle University School of Law to reach the Washington Supreme Court.

He remains active in the law school’s activities, participating in moot court competitions and clinical exercises. He is an adjunct professor teaching a comprehensive seminar on the state constitution. Justice Johnson authored a comprehensive update on Washington searc