OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Two Supreme Court justices are fighting to retain their seats on the state’s highest court, and voters will decide at least one seat in the primary.
Up for re-election this year are Chief Justice Barbara Madsen and Justices Richard Sanders and Jim Johnson. Sanders and Johnson are the only ones who face challengers, and Madsen will advance through Tuesday’s primary to the November ballot unopposed.
Johnson faces Tacoma attorney Stan Rumbaugh in the only race certain to be decided in the primary.
Sanders has drawn two opponents, former Court of Appeals Judge Charlie Wiggins and Pierce County Superior Judge Bryan Chushcoff, which means there’s a good chance that no one candidate will draw more than 50 percent and win the race in the primary.
