David Keenan’s résumé is so deep, it’ll make your head spin. He’s an attorney at a high-powered law firm called Orrick, he’s been in the trenches on police reform as a Seattle Community Police Commission member, and he’s the board president for the Northwest Justice Project, which represents indigent clients. Oh, and he’s been endorsed by the entire Washington State supreme court. As a child whose parents struggled with poverty and crime, Keenan and his family experienced King County’s justice system firsthand. He knows from personal experience that the system could work better and he plans to use his position as judge to advocate for these fixes: cutting down on the use of cash bail so that people aren’t incarcerated for being poor, eliminating most onerous monetary penalties on defendants, known as “legal financial obligations,” and diverting more juvenile offenders away from jail.
