Wait a second, if the Stranger is going to make a big deal because a lesbian judge got sworn in, then why was SLOG completely silent during the election about Ed Murray, Seattle's first openly gay mayor? When he married his boyfriend, he got a one sentence mention in the morning news, where Seattle Times gave him a few paragraphs.

@1 They gave Ed a lot of props for getting gay marriage through Olympia, but other than that, you're right. They have seemed rather muted about hizzoner's landmark election.
Nevertheless,
Huzzah for Hon. Mary Yu!

Is Judge Mary Yu going to help fight to pay her jurors $15 an hour? Because right now they're only making $10 a day.

When does she begin? Is she still presiding over the Danford Grant serial rape trial?

Judge Yu is awesome!! Great news. She is also, I believe Asian and Latino.

I sat in on one of her trials. She works painstakingly hard to be fair and get it right. Very impressive judge. Her historic first gay marriage in WA is a nice plus as well.

Oh @3 you dumbass, its a stipend not wages. I'm all for higher wages when they are actually wages. It is a rediculosly low figure for a stipend, and should be updated sometime this century. Courts are already underfunded and there is no pollitical will to give them more money.

Congratulations to Justice Yu. I didn't really see this coming from Inslee, I always pictured him as the aging fratboy kind of democrat, but he's done a few progressive things that have wadded up a lot of panties on the right wing.

If I remember correctly, Washington state jury stipends were last raised in the 1950s, and at that time were roughly minimum wage.

Great appointment for the court regardless.

Best real pun ever. Wouldn't it be cool to get married by a judge named Mary Yu? I loved our officiant when I got married, but Yu would have been my second choice, based on her name alone.

Name pun aside, she is a great judge and this is great news. Congrats!

Because SLOG doesn't like corrupt assholes like that kochsucker Ed Murray is my guess.

Timmy Eyman can't be too happy. Johnson was his favorite Supreme Court justice. He's getting replaced by a judge that declared one of Timmy's initiatives unconstitutional.

The Seattle Times reports that Danford Grant's trial will begin jury selection Monday with a different judge. That trial may go on for months so Mary Yu would not be available since she is now a Supreme Court Justice. Thanks goodness they are going ahead on schedule. I hope they choose a judge who is fair and square.