Judge Nicole Gaines Phelps is an administrative law judge with a 20-year record of kicking ass and taking names. At the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, where she worked for nine years, Gaines Phelps won a landmark domestic violence decision that was later upheld by the US Supreme Court. Gaines Phelps is also a longtime civil rights leader, and helped create the state Task Force on Race and Washington’s Criminal Justice System. As former president of the Loren Miller Bar Association, a civil rights law group, Gaines Phelps even took the rare and bold step of publicly challenging the statements of two sitting Washington State supreme court justices who said that African Americans are incarcerated at higher rates simply because they commit more crimes. We need Gaines Phelps to continue to kick ass on the King County superior court, where her passion for racial and restorative justice will have especially profound impacts. GO GAINES PHELPS!
