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role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Biography"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Biography</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Elections"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Elections</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#2022"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">2022</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#2016"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">2016</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5"><a href="#Election_results"><span class="tocnumber">2.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Election results</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-6"><a href="#November_8_general_election"><span class="tocnumber">2.2.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">November 8 general election</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-7"><a href="#August_2_primary"><span class="tocnumber">2.2.1.2</span> <span class="toctext">August 2 primary</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8"><a href="#Race_background"><span class="tocnumber">2.2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Race background</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#Satellite_spending"><span class="tocnumber">2.2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Satellite spending</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9"><a href="#Madsen_and_Zempel_on_issues"><span class="tocnumber">2.2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Madsen and Zempel on issues</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10"><a href="#Campaign_finance"><span class="tocnumber">2.2.5</span> <span class="toctext">Campaign finance</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#2010"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">2010</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#2004"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">2004</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#1998"><span class="tocnumber">2.5</span> <span class="toctext">1998</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#1992"><span class="tocnumber">2.6</span> <span class="toctext">1992</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#Campaign_themes"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Campaign themes</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#2022_2"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">2022</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#Analysis"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Analysis</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Ballotpedia_Courts:_State_Partisanship_(2020)"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#Bonica_and_Woodruff_campaign_finance_scores_(2012)"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Bonica and Woodruff campaign finance scores (2012)</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20"><a href="#Noteworthy_cases"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Noteworthy cases</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="#Vote_to_uphold_ban_on_same-sex_marriage"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Vote to uphold ban on same-sex marriage</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22"><a href="#State_supreme_court_judicial_selection_in_Washington"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">State supreme court judicial selection in Washington</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Qualifications"><span class="tocnumber">6.1</span> <span class="toctext">Qualifications</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Chief_justice"><span class="tocnumber">6.2</span> <span class="toctext">Chief justice</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Vacancies"><span class="tocnumber">6.3</span> <span class="toctext">Vacancies</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25"><a href="#Footnotes"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Footnotes</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <p><br /> </p> <p><b>Barbara A. Madsen</b> is a judge for Position 5 of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_State_Supreme_Court">Washington Supreme Court</a>. She assumed office on January 11, 1993. Her current term ends on January 7, 2029.</p><p>Madsen ran for re-election for the Position 5 judge of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_State_Supreme_Court">Washington Supreme Court</a>. She won in the general election on <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Supreme_Court_elections,_2022">November 8, 2022</a>. </p> <p>Madsen first became a member of the <a href="/Washington_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Supreme Court">Washington Supreme Court</a> through a nonpartisan election. She was first elected to the court in 1992, defeating Elaine Houghton.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> Madsen was chief justice of the <a href="/Washington_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Supreme Court">Washington Supreme Court</a> from 2010 to 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-bio_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bio-2">[2]</a></sup> To read more about judicial selection in Washington, <a href="/Judicial_selection_in_Washington" title="Judicial selection in Washington">click here</a>. </p><p>In 2020, Ballotpedia published <i><a href="/Ballotpedia_Courts:_State_Partisanship" title="Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship">Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship</a></i>, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country. As part of this study, we assigned each justice a <i>Confidence Score</i> describing our confidence in the degree of partisanship exhibited by the justices' past partisan behavior, before they joined the court.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> Madsen received a confidence score of <b>Mild Democrat</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> <a href="#Ballotpedia_Courts:_State_Partisanship_(2020)">Click here</a> to read more about this study. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Biography">Biography</span></h2> <p>Before serving on the supreme court, Madsen served on the <a href="/Seattle_Municipal_Court,_Washington" title="Seattle Municipal Court, Washington">Seattle Municipal Court</a>. Before that, she was the special prosecutor at the Seattle City Attorney’s Office. Madsen began her career as a public defender, after receiving her <a href="/J.D." class="mw-redirect" title="J.D.">J.D.</a> from Gonzaga University School of Law in 1977. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-Bio_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bio-5">[5]</a></sup> </p><p>Madsen was awarded the Judicial Award by the Equal Justice Coalition in 2004 and was named the Woman of the Year by the Seattle University School of Law in 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-bio_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bio-2">[2]</a></sup> She was appointed chair of the Washington State Gender and Justice Commission in 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Elections">Elections</span></h2> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="2022">2022</span></h3> <p><style> .votebox { color: #888; display: table; max-width: 600px; } .electionsectionheading { font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: .75em; margin-top: 1em; } .results_text { font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: 200; border-bottom: 1px solid grey; padding-bottom: 7px; 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} .results_table_container { max-height: 580px; overflow-y: auto; } </p> </style></p><p style="padding-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 10px;"><i>See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Supreme_Court_elections,_2022">Washington Supreme Court elections, 2022</a></i></p><p style="padding-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 10px;"><i><a href=""></a></i></p><h4>General election</h4><div class="votebox-scroll-container"><div class="votebox"><div class="race_header nonpartisan"><h5 class="votebox-header-election-type">General election for Washington State Supreme Court Position 5</h5></div><p class="results_text">Incumbent <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Barbara_Madsen">Barbara A. Madsen</a> won election in the general election for Washington State Supreme Court Position 5 on November 8, 2022. </p><p class="indicate_scroll" style="text-align: right"></p><div class="results_table_container"><table class="results_table"><tbody><tr class="non_result_row" style="margin-top: 6px;"><td colspan="2"></td><td><div>Candidate</div></td><td style="text-align: center;min-width: 100px;"><div style="width: 75px;text-align: center;float:left;margin-left: 10px;">%</div></td><td style="text-align: center;"><div>Votes</div></td></tr><tr class="results_row winner"><td class="votebox-results-cell--check">✔</td><td><div class="image-candidate-thumbnail-wrapper Nonpartisan"><img class="image-candidate-thumbnail" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/ballotpedia-api4/files/thumbs/100/100/BMadsenWA.png" onerror="imgError(this);" alt="Image of Barbara A. Madsen" /></div></td><td class="votebox-results-cell--text"><b><u><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Barbara_Madsen">Barbara A. Madsen</a></u></b> (Nonpartisan) </td><td class="votebox-results-cell--number"><div class="outer_percentage">  <div class="percentage_number">97.8</div><div class="inner_percentage Nonpartisan" style="width: 97.8%;">  </div></div></td><td class="votebox-results-cell--number">1,937,634</td></tr><tr class="results_row"><td class="votebox-results-cell--check"></td><td> </td><td class="votebox-results-cell--text">Other/Write-in votes</td><td class="votebox-results-cell--number"><div class="outer_percentage">  <div class="percentage_number">2.2</div><div class="inner_percentage" style="width: 2.2%;"> </div></div></td><td class="votebox-results-cell--number">43,453</td></tr></tbody></table></div><hr /><table class="votebox_legend"><tbody><tr class="non_result_row"><td style="width: 40px;"><p style="margin-bottom: -12px;"><img class="votebox_bp_logo" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/images/bp-logo-sm.svg" alt="Ballotpedia Logo" title="The Encyclopedia of American Politics" /></p></td><td><p style="margin-bottom: -12px; margin-right: 15px;" class="votebox-results-metadata-p"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Incumbent">Incumbents</a> are <b><u>bolded and underlined</u></b>. The results have been certified. <a href="https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20221108/judicial-all.html" target="_blank">Source</a></p></td><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 170px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: right;" class="votebox-results-cell--number">Total votes: 1,981,087 </td></tr><tr class="non_result_row"><td colspan="5" style="margin:5px;"><span><img style="width: 15px" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/images/candidate_connection_shortened_logo.png" alt="Candidate Connection" title="Candidate Connection" /> = candidate completed the <a href="/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection">Ballotpedia Candidate Connection</a> survey.</span></td></tr><tr class="non_result_row"><td colspan="5" style="margin:5px;">If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, <a href="/Survey?source=votebox">complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" style="background:#DDD; position:relative;"><p style="margin:0; font-size:0.75em; color:#666;">Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? <a href="mailto:data@ballotpedia.org">Contact our sales team.</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><h4>Nonpartisan primary election</h4><p>The primary election was canceled. Incumbent <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Barbara_Madsen">Barbara A. Madsen</a> advanced from the primary for Washington State Supreme Court Position 5.</p><script>function defer(){window.jQuery?indicateScroll():setTimeout(function(){defer()},500)}function indicateScroll(){jQuery(".votebox").each(function(e){if(jQuery(".results_table_container").get(e).scrollHeight>580){let o=jQuery(".votebox .indicate_scroll").get(e);jQuery(o).html("Scroll for more <i class='glyphicon glyphicon-arrow-down'></i> ")}})}defer();</script> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="2016">2016</span></h3> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>See also: <a href="/Washington_judicial_elections,_2016" title="Washington judicial elections, 2016">Washington judicial elections, 2016</a></i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <p>Madsen ran for re-election in 2016. She ran against challengers <a href="/Greg_Zempel" title="Greg Zempel">Greg Zempel</a> and <a href="/John_Scannell" title="John Scannell">John Scannell</a> in the primary on August 2. Madsen and Zempel defeated Scannell in the primary and advanced to the general election. Madsen defeated Zempel on November 8.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> </p> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Election_results">Election results</span></h4> <h5><span class="mw-headline" id="November_8_general_election">November 8 general election</span></h5> <div>Incumbent <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Barbara Madsen</a> defeated <a href="/Greg_Zempel" title="Greg Zempel">Greg Zempel</a> in the general election for the Washington Supreme Court, Position 5.</div><table width="490px" class="bptable gray collapsible"> <tbody><tr> <th style="color:white;background-color: #444;text-align:center" colspan="3"><b>Washington Supreme Court, Position 5, 2016</b></th> </tr> <tr><td width="275px" style="color:white;background-color:grey;text-align:center">Candidate</td> <td width="75px" style="color:white;background-color:grey;text-align:center">Vote %</td> <td width="100px" style="color:white;background-color:grey;text-align:center">Votes</td></tr><tr><td width="275px" style="text-align:center"><a href="/Won" title="Won"><img alt="Green check mark transparent.png" src="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Green_check_mark_transparent.png/14px-Green_check_mark_transparent.png" width="14" height="14" srcset="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Green_check_mark_transparent.png/21px-Green_check_mark_transparent.png 1.5x, https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Green_check_mark_transparent.png/28px-Green_check_mark_transparent.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100" /></a> <b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Barbara Madsen</a></b> <small><i><b>Incumbent</b></i></small></td> <td width="75" style="text-align:center">61.95%</td> <td width="100" style="text-align:center">1,679,786</td></tr><tr><td width="275px" style="text-align:center"><a href="/Greg_Zempel" title="Greg Zempel">Greg Zempel</a> </td> <td width="75" style="text-align:center">38.05%</td> <td width="100" style="text-align:center">1,031,698</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" width="450" style="color:white;background-color:#444;text-align:center"><b>Total Votes</b> <i>(100% reporting)</i></td> <td width="100" style="text-align:center"><b>2,711,484</b></td></tr><tr> <td style="text-align:left" colspan="3"><i>Source:</i> <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20161108/Judicial-All.html">Washington Secretary of State Official Results</a></td> </tr></tbody></table> <h5><span class="mw-headline" id="August_2_primary">August 2 primary</span></h5> <table width="490px" class="bptable gray collapsible"> <tbody><tr> <th style="color:white;background-color: #444;text-align:center" colspan="3"><b>Washington Supreme Court Primary, Position 5, 2016</b></th> </tr> <tr><td width="275px" style="color:white;background-color:grey;text-align:center">Candidate</td> <td width="75px" style="color:white;background-color:grey;text-align:center">Vote %</td> <td width="100px" style="color:white;background-color:grey;text-align:center">Votes</td></tr><tr><td width="275px" style="text-align:center"><a href="/Won" title="Won"><img alt="Green check mark transparent.png" src="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Green_check_mark_transparent.png/14px-Green_check_mark_transparent.png" width="14" height="14" srcset="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Green_check_mark_transparent.png/21px-Green_check_mark_transparent.png 1.5x, https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Green_check_mark_transparent.png/28px-Green_check_mark_transparent.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100" /></a> <b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Barbara Madsen</a></b> <small><i><b>Incumbent</b></i></small></td> <td width="75" style="text-align:center">63.90%</td> <td width="100" style="text-align:center">759,475</td></tr><tr><td width="275px" style="text-align:center"><a href="/Won" title="Won"><img alt="Green check mark transparent.png" src="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Green_check_mark_transparent.png/14px-Green_check_mark_transparent.png" width="14" height="14" srcset="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Green_check_mark_transparent.png/21px-Green_check_mark_transparent.png 1.5x, https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Green_check_mark_transparent.png/28px-Green_check_mark_transparent.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100" /></a> <b><a href="/Greg_Zempel" title="Greg Zempel">Greg Zempel</a></b> </td> <td width="75" style="text-align:center">29.71%</td> <td width="100" style="text-align:center">353,149</td></tr><tr><td width="275px" style="text-align:center"><a href="/John_Scannell" title="John Scannell">John Scannell</a> </td> <td width="75" style="text-align:center">6.38%</td> <td width="100" style="text-align:center">75,849</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" width="450" style="color:white;background-color:#444;text-align:center"><b>Total Votes</b> <i>(2000 of 2000 reporting: 100%)</i></td> <td width="100" style="text-align:center"><b>1,188,473</b></td></tr><tr> <td style="text-align:left" colspan="3"><i>Source:</i> <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20160802/Supreme-Court-Justice-Position-5.html">Washington Secretary of State Official Results</a></td> </tr></tbody></table> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Race_background">Race background</span></h4> <p>The 2016 election was the first since the 1990s in which all three state supreme court justices up for re-election faced opponents.<sup id="cite_ref-Background_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Background-8">[8]</a></sup> At least one justice in every election typically runs unopposed, but this year all three incumbents drew challengers. Republican state Representative <a href="/Matt_Manweller" title="Matt Manweller">Matt Manweller</a> said he and other lawmakers actively recruited candidates to run against the justices.<sup id="cite_ref-Background_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Background-8">[8]</a></sup> This was partly because of the court's decisions in the long-running school funding case <i><a href="/Public_education_in_Washington#McCleary_v._Washington" title="Public education in Washington">McCleary v. Washington</a></i>, over which the court drew criticism from both Republicans and Democrats for holding the state in contempt of court, and in a separate case about the state funding of charter schools. </p><p>Those in favor of replacing the justices said the court has overstepped its boundaries into legislation and policymaking and failed to respect the autonomy of the <a href="/Washington_State_Legislature" title="Washington State Legislature">state legislature</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Background_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Background-8">[8]</a></sup> In the <i>McCleary</i> school funding case, the court both found the state government in contempt and fined the state $100,000 per day until the state complied with the court's orders.<sup id="cite_ref-Contempt_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Contempt-9">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Fine_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fine-10">[10]</a></sup> </p><p>In a separate case, the court ruled unconstitutional the state funding of charter schools right before those schools were set to open in 2015. </p> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Satellite_spending"><a href="/Satellite_spending" title="Satellite spending">Satellite spending</a></span></h4> <p>The political action committee arm of the group Stand for Children spent $116,000 promoting the campaign of <a href="/Greg_Zempel" title="Greg Zempel">Greg Zempel</a>, who challenged Chief Justice <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Barbara Madsen</a> for her seat on the court.<sup id="cite_ref-Stand_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stand-11">[11]</a></sup> Madsen authored the court's 2015 decision declaring Washington's charter schools, in their form at that time, unconstitutional. The legislature passed a new bill in 2016 that allowed charter schools to continue; opponents threatened to sue over this law as well.<sup id="cite_ref-Stand_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stand-11">[11]</a></sup> Stand for Children's spending on Zempel's campaign was funded by several of the backers of charter schools who were opposed to the court's 2015 decision. The primary donors include <a href="/Connie_Ballmer" title="Connie Ballmer">Connie Ballmer</a>, wife of former Microsoft CEO <a href="/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer">Steve Ballmer</a>; <a href="/Reed_Hastings" title="Reed Hastings">Reed Hastings</a>, founder and CEO of Netflix; and Vulcan Inc., owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Vulcan and Ballmer were also among the primary backers of the ballot initiative that paved the way for the charter schools.<sup id="cite_ref-Stand_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stand-11">[11]</a></sup> </p> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Madsen_and_Zempel_on_issues">Madsen and Zempel on issues</span></h4> <p>The <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/elections/faceoff-state-supreme-court/article_f71e2178-82d1-11e6-b25a-17b2ce162be0.html"><i>Yakima Herald</i></a> published a set of answers given by Chief Justice <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Barbara Madsen</a> and her challenger, <a href="/Greg_Zempel" title="Greg Zempel">Greg Zempel</a>, to questions that included the primary salient issue of the election: the court's handling of the <i>McCleary</i> case. </p><p>On the <i>McCleary</i> case: </p> <table data-nosnippet="" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;background-color: transparent; auto; ;"> <tbody><tr> <td width="20" valign="top" style="border:none; color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding: 10px 3px;">“ </td> <td valign="top" style="border: none; padding: 4px 10px;">Question: How do you reconcile the court’s role as legal interpreter with the Legislature’s policy-making role, particularly as it applies to cases such as McCleary? <p><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Barbara Madsen</a>: "I know that my opponent likes to say that the court is becoming too political. I think it's important for people to remember that the Supreme Court and the trial courts—<b>none of the courts reach out into the community to try to take issues that they think somehow need the touch of the court. Every single issue that comes to the court comes because a plaintiff brought the issue to a court. ... Necessarily, these cases will touch on issues that have a political aspect to them.</b> The three branches of the government, none of us work in a vacuum. Our drafters designed a system of governance that includes the three branches. And governance is all about politics, right? ... And at the end of the day, with a case like McCleary, if people cannot come to court to get redress against their government, which is guaranteed under the constitution, then where do they go?" </p><p><a href="/Greg_Zempel" title="Greg Zempel">Greg Zempel</a>: "<b>One legislative body does not have the ability to bind future legislative bodies. ... In this particular case, the court said, 'We're going to retain jurisdiction. You have until 2018 to cure your contempt for not doing what you're supposed to do. And because we as a body don't believe you're going to do the job, we're going to keep checking in on you, and we're going to keep imposing sanctions, we're going to keep holding hearings.'</b> ... They have basically told the Legislature, 'You adopted this plan and we're not going to let you change this plan unless there's an educational basis to do so.' But then they're the ones who decide whether there's an educational basis put forward by the Legislature or not. So in essence they're being told, 'You can't change your legislation.'"<sup id="cite_ref-Faceoff_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Faceoff-12">[12]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-quotedisclaimer_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-quotedisclaimer-13">[13]</a></sup> </p> </td> <td width="20" valign="bottom" style="border: none; color: #B2B7F2; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; padding: 10px 1px;">” </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>On the regional balance of the court: </p> <table data-nosnippet="" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;background-color: transparent; auto; ;"> <tbody><tr> <td width="20" valign="top" style="border:none; color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding: 10px 3px;">“ </td> <td valign="top" style="border: none; padding: 4px 10px;">The issue: <b>Of the nine justices on the state Supreme Court, only one, Justice Debra Stephens of Spokane, was elected while living in Eastern Washington.</b> Both candidates for this seat on the court believe diversity among justices is important, but they differ on whether place of residence is an important factor in reaching that diversity. <p>Question: Is it important to have increased Eastern Washington representation on the state Supreme Court? Why or why not? </p><p><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Madsen</a>: "Diversity of experience is really important to any appellate court, because we do collaborate. That's the whole purpose of an appellate court is that it's made up of multi-members who bring something to the table that the others perhaps don't have in their experience either as lawyers or in life experience .... <b>But do I think we need a representative from Eastern Washington? No. ... Representation is not the point of a court. It's experiences, both life and legal that bring richness to the fabric of a court."</b> </p><p><a href="/Greg_Zempel" title="Greg Zempel">Zempel</a>: <b>"Right now we have eight of nine justices who are basically from the greater Seattle area.... If you all agree at the outset of your conversation, based upon the fact that you have all lived a common, similar life, then your discussion points are much different than if you broaden that up and bring in people who have different perspectives on the same issue.</b> ... They have a much different perspective on the interaction of state agencies with local government. ... So I think when you talk about diversity, there's also a need for diversity of thought, which comes from geographic representation."<sup id="cite_ref-Faceoff_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Faceoff-12">[12]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-quotedisclaimer_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-quotedisclaimer-13">[13]</a></sup> </p> </td> <td width="20" valign="bottom" style="border: none; color: #B2B7F2; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; padding: 10px 1px;">” </td></tr> </tbody></table> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Campaign_finance">Campaign finance</span></h4> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" style="border-collapse:collapse; style="> <tbody><tr bgcolor="#CCDCFF"> <td colspan="4"><b>Barbara Madsen Campaign Finance, 2016</b> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#CCDCFF"> <th>Contributions</th> <th>Expenditures</th> <th>Cash on Hand</th> <th>Debt </th></tr> <tr> <td>$67,300</td> <td>$12,279</td> <td>$55,021</td> <td>$6,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td><small><i><b>Source:</b></i></small></td> <td><small><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://web.pdc.wa.gov/MvcQuerySystem/Candidate/jud_candidates"><b>Washington Public Disclosure Commission</b></a></small> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="2010">2010</span></h3> <dl><dd><i>See also: <a href="/Washington_judicial_elections,_2010" title="Washington judicial elections, 2010">Washington judicial elections, 2010</a></i></dd></dl> <p>Madsen was re-elected in 2010 after running unopposed.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="2004">2004</span></h3> <p>In the 2004 election, Barbara Madsen raised $46,491.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup> For a complete summary, visit <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=70029"><i>Follow the Money</i>, "Barbara Madsen 2004"</a> </p> <table width="*" class="sortable" style="text-align:center;"><tbody><tr> <th bgcolor="#eaeaea">Candidate</th> <th bgcolor="#eaeaea">Incumbent</th><th bgcolor="#eaeaea">Seat</th><th bgcolor="#eaeaea">Primary %</th><th bgcolor="#eaeaea">Election %</th><td rowspan="2"><div class="floatright"><a href="/File:Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png" class="image"><img alt="Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/2/29/Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png/60px-Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" srcset="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/2/29/Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png/90px-Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png 1.5x, https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/2/29/Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png/120px-Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="900" /></a></div></td></tr><tr align="center"> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Barbara Madsen</a> <a href="/Approved" title="Approved"><img alt="Approved" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/18px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="18" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/27px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/36px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a><span style="display:none;">A</span></td> <td></td><td>Position #5</td><td>60.9%</td><td>100%</td></tr><tr align="center"> <td>Terry Lukens</td> <td></td><td>Position #5</td><td>39.1%</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="1998">1998</span></h3> <p>Madsen was re-elected in 1998, defeating Jim Bates in the general election.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup> </p> <table width="*" class="sortable" style="text-align:center;"><tbody><tr> <th bgcolor="#eaeaea">Candidate</th> <th bgcolor="#eaeaea">Incumbent</th><th bgcolor="#eaeaea">Seat</th><th bgcolor="#eaeaea">Primary %</th><th bgcolor="#eaeaea">Election %</th><td rowspan="2"><div class="floatright"><a href="/File:Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png" class="image"><img alt="Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/2/29/Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png/60px-Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" srcset="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/2/29/Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png/90px-Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png 1.5x, https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/2/29/Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png/120px-Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="900" /></a></div></td></tr><tr align="center"> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Barbara Madsen</a> <a href="/Approved" title="Approved"><img alt="Approved" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/18px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="18" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/27px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/36px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a><span style="display:none;">A</span></td> <td></td><td>Position #5</td><td>46%</td><td>68.1%</td></tr><tr align="center"> <td>Jim Bates</td> <td></td><td>Position #5</td><td>31.6%</td><td>31.9%</td></tr><tr align="center"> <td>Linda Callahan McCaslin</td> <td></td><td>Position #5</td><td>22.2%</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br /> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="1992">1992</span></h3> <p>Madsen defeated Elaine Houghton in the November 1992 general election.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></sup> </p> <table width="*" class="sortable" style="text-align:center;"><tbody><tr> <th bgcolor="#eaeaea">Candidate</th> <th bgcolor="#eaeaea">Incumbent</th><th bgcolor="#eaeaea">Seat</th><th bgcolor="#eaeaea">Primary %</th><th bgcolor="#eaeaea">Election %</th><td rowspan="2"><div class="floatright"><a href="/File:Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png" class="image"><img alt="Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/2/29/Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png/60px-Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" srcset="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/2/29/Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png/90px-Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png 1.5x, https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/2/29/Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png/120px-Supreme-Court-Elections-badge.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="900" /></a></div></td></tr><tr align="center"> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Barbara Madsen</a> <a href="/Approved" title="Approved"><img alt="Approved" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/18px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="18" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/27px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/36px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a><span style="display:none;">A</span></td> <td></td><td>Position #1</td><td>27.6%</td><td>50.6%</td></tr><tr align="center"> <td>Elaine Houghton</td> <td></td><td>Position #1</td><td>26.1%</td><td>49.3%</td></tr><tr align="center"> <td>Keith Callow</td> <td></td><td>Position #1</td><td>22.8%</td><td></td></tr><tr align="center"> <td>Edward Heavey</td> <td></td><td>Position #1</td><td>15.3%</td><td></td></tr><tr align="center"> <td>Philip Rodriguez</td> <td></td><td>Position #1</td><td>8%</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br /> </p> <div id="div-gpt-ad-1610395138232-0"><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-1610395138232-0"); });</script></div><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Campaign_themes"><a href="/Campaign_themes" title="Campaign themes">Campaign themes</a></span></h2> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="2022_2">2022</span></h3> <style type="text/css">.survey-result {padding:10px;}p.survey-question {font-weight:bold;}p.survey-response {margin-left:10px;}p.survey-response {white-space: pre-line;}ul.key-messages {list-style-type: none; margin-left:10px; }.key-messages li {margin-bottom: 10px;}.key-messages li:last-child { margin-bottom: 0px;}div.survey-scrollbox { height:400px; overflow:scroll; margin:20px; padding:10px; border:1px solid gray; }div.oneoff-scrollbox.short { height:250px; overflow:scroll; margin:20px; 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Madsen did not complete <a href="/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection">Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection</a> survey. </p><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Analysis">Analysis</span></h2> <h3><span id="Ballotpedia_Courts:_State_Partisanship_.282020.29"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Ballotpedia_Courts:_State_Partisanship_(2020)">Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)</span></h3> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>See also: <a href="/Ballotpedia_Courts:_State_Partisanship" title="Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship">Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship</a> and <a href="/Ballotpedia_Courts:_Determiners_and_Dissenters" title="Ballotpedia Courts: Determiners and Dissenters">Ballotpedia Courts: Determiners and Dissenters</a></i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <p><i>Last updated: June 15, 2020</i> </p><p>In 2020, Ballotpedia published <i><a href="/Ballotpedia_Courts:_State_Partisanship" title="Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship">Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship</a></i>, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country as of June 15, 2020. </p><p>The study presented <i>Confidence Scores</i> that represented our confidence in each justice's degree of partisan affiliation. This was not a measure of where a justice fell on an ideological spectrum, but rather a measure of how much confidence we had that a justice was or had been affiliated with a political party. The scores were based on seven factors, including but not limited to party registration.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup> </p><p>The five resulting categories of <i>Confidence Scores</i> were: </p> <ul><li>Strong Democrat</li> <li>Mild Democrat</li> <li>Indeterminate<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a></sup></li> <li>Mild Republican</li> <li>Strong Republican</li></ul> <p>This justice's <i>Confidence Score</i>, as well as the factors contributing to that score, is presented below. The information below was current as of June 2020. <style media="screen"> #PartisanProfile{ width: 100%; box-shadow: 2px 4px rgba(36,36,36,.03); margin-bottom: 24px; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px; padding: 30px; } </p><p> .no-hover { text-decoration: none !important; text-decoration-color: none !important; } #PartisanProfile p span[style] { font-size: 16px !important; font-family: 'Libre Franklin' !important; color: #333 !important; } #PartisanProfile span[style] { font-family: 'Libre Franklin' !important; font-size: 16px !important; white-space: normal !important; font-weight: 400 !important; } .gray_accent{ color: #333333; } .gray_divider{ background-color: #333333; height: 5px; width: 50px; } #PartisanProfile>p{ display: none; } .right_side{ overflow-y: scroll !important; } #left_list { list-style: none !important; margin: 0; } #left_list li { margin-bottom: 10px; } .person_name{ font-size: 30pt !important; padding: 0 !important; margin: 0 !important; line-height: 40px; } .part_profile_text{ font-size: 20pt !important; } #PartisanProfile h5 { font-size: 14pt !important; } #PartisanProfile h6{ font-size: 12pt !important; } #left_list span{ font-size: 12pt; } h4 { padding: 0 !important; } .partisan-prof-state { font-size: 24px !important; font-weight: 300; margin: 0; color: #333; } </p><p> a .partisan-prof-state { color: #333 !important; } .easy-black li span[style] { color: #333 !important; font-family: 'Libre Franklin' !important; font-size: 16px !important; } .Strong-Republican { background: #A30000 !important; border: 3px solid #A30000 !important; color: #A30000 !important; } .Mild-Republican { background: #F21414 !important; border: 3px solid #F21414 !important; color: #F21414 !important; } .Indeterminate { background: #777777 !important; border: 3px solid #777777 !important; color: #777777 !important; } .Mild-Democrat { background: #275DFF !important; border: 3px solid #275DFF !important; color: #275DFF !important; } .Strong-Democrat { background: #001A9B !important; border: 3px solid #001A9B !important; color: #001A9B !important; } </style> </p> <div id="PartisanProfile"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Barbara_Madsen"><h3 class="gray_accent person_name no-hover">Barbara <br />Madsen</h3></a> <a href="/Washington_Supreme_Court"><p class="partisan-prof-state no-hover">Washington</p></a> <p> <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/ballotpedia-api4/files/thumbs/200/300/BMadsenWA.png" class="Mild-Democrat" style="width: 100px; height:150px; border-radius: 10px; margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px" /> </p> <ul id="left_list"> <li style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 24px;"><b>Partisan Confidence Score:</b> <br /><span style="font-size: 20px !important; background: white !important; border: none !important" class="Mild-Democrat">Mild Democrat</span></li> <li><b>Judicial Selection Method:</b> <br />Elected</li> <li><b>Key Factors:</b> <span class="easy-block"><ul><li>Received donations from Democrat-affiliated individuals or organizations</li><li>Endorsed by Republican-affiliated individuals or organizations </li><li>State was a Democratic trifecta at time of appointment</li></ul></span></li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-md-6 col-xs-12"> <br /><div class="gray_divider Mild-Democrat"></div><br /><span class="gray_accent part_profile_text">Partisan Profile</span><br /><br /><b>Details:</b><p>Madsen received $100 in donations from the Washington State Women's Caucus, $50 from the 5th District Democrats, $193 from the Metropolitan Democrats, and $4,000 from the Washington Education Association, all of which donate to Democratic candidates more frequently than Republicans. She was endorsed by the Network for Public Education, the Washington State Labor Council, the Washington State Patrol Troopers Association, the Washington State Council of Fire Fighters, the Washington Conservation Voters, the Washington Education Association, and the Washington State Federation of Democratic Women, all of which endorse Democratic candidates more frequently than Republicans. At the time of her election, the state of Washington was a Democratic trifecta.</p> <p> <b>Other Scores:</b> </p> <div class="easy-black">In a 2012 study of campaign contributions, Madsen received a campaign finance score of -0.63, indicating a liberal ideological leaning.</div> </div> <div class="col-xs-12"> <p> <br /> </p> </div> </div> </div> <h3><span id="Bonica_and_Woodruff_campaign_finance_scores_.282012.29"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Bonica_and_Woodruff_campaign_finance_scores_(2012)">Bonica and Woodruff campaign finance scores (2012)</span></h3> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>See also: <a href="/Bonica_and_Woodruff_campaign_finance_scores_of_state_supreme_court_justices,_2012" title="Bonica and Woodruff campaign finance scores of state supreme court justices, 2012">Bonica and Woodruff campaign finance scores of state supreme court justices, 2012</a></i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <p>In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal. </p><p><b>Madsen received a campaign finance score of -0.63, indicating a liberal ideological leaning.</b> This was less liberal than the average score of -0.91 that justices received in <a href="/Washington" title="Washington">Washington</a>. </p><p>The study was based on data from campaign contributions by the judges themselves, the partisan leaning of those who contributed to the judges' campaigns, or, in the absence of elections, the ideology of the appointing body (governor or legislature). This study was not a definitive label of a justice, but an academic summary of various relevant factors.<sup id="cite_ref-standfordstudy_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-standfordstudy-21">[21]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Noteworthy_cases"><a href="/Noteworthy_cases_coverage_at_Ballotpedia" title="Noteworthy cases coverage at Ballotpedia">Noteworthy cases</a></span></h2> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Vote_to_uphold_ban_on_same-sex_marriage">Vote to uphold ban on same-sex marriage</span></h3> <p>The <a href="/Washington_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Supreme Court">Washington Supreme Court</a> determined in a 5-to-4 decision to uphold the state's Defense of Marriage Act. Six different opinions were issued in the case, and some stated that the legislature could extend the right of marriage to same-sex couples. Madsen wrote in her opinion that, “Limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples furthers procreation, essential to the survival of the human race, and furthers the well-being of children by encouraging families where children are reared in homes headed by the children’s biological parents.” Madsen also argued that judges should not dictate public policy, stating, "The law banning gay marriages may yet change, but not because five members of this court have dictated it.”<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="State_supreme_court_judicial_selection_in_Washington">State supreme court judicial selection in Washington</span></h2> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>See also: <a href="/Judicial_selection_in_Washington" title="Judicial selection in Washington">Judicial selection in Washington</a></i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <p><br /> The <b>nine justices</b> of the <a href="/Washington_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Supreme Court">supreme court</a> are selected through contested <a href="/Nonpartisan_election_of_judges" title="Nonpartisan election of judges">nonpartisan elections</a> and must run for re-election when their terms expire. Supreme court judges serve for six years.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Qualifications">Qualifications</span></h3> <p>To serve on the supreme court, a judge must be: </p> <ul><li>admitted to practice law in Washington; and</li> <li>under the age of 75.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a></sup></li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Chief_justice">Chief justice</span></h3> <p>The <a href="/Chief_justice" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief justice">chief justice</a> of the supreme court is selected through a peer vote and has a set term of four years.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Vacancies">Vacancies</span></h3> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>See also: <a href="/How_vacancies_are_filled_in_state_supreme_courts" title="How vacancies are filled in state supreme courts">How vacancies are filled in state supreme courts</a></i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <p>In the event of a midterm vacancy, the <a href="/Gubernatorial_appointment_of_judges" title="Gubernatorial appointment of judges">governor appoints a replacement</a>. The appointee serves until the next general election, at which point he or she may run to serve for the remainder of the predecessor's term.<sup id="cite_ref-WAconst_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WAconst-26">[26]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-general_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-general-27">[27]</a></sup> If the resignation and subsequent appointment takes place after the filing period opens for that year's elections, the appointee must stand in the next year's election to remain on the bench.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a></sup> </p><p>The map below highlights how vacancies are filled in state supreme courts across the country. </p><p class="mw-empty-elt"></p><center><iframe title="Judicial selection methods in state supreme courts for partial terms" aria-label="Map" id="datawrapper-chart-B3f0r" src="https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/B3f0r/7/" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="width: 0; min-width: 70% !important; 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Madsen" target="_blank">Search Google News for this topic</a></li></div> <div class="scrollable-table-container external_links_table"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="multicol" style="background:transparent; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td width="30%" align="left" valign="top"> <p class="contact_entity"><b>Candidate</b></p> <i><p class="contact_office">Washington State Supreme Court Position 5</p></i> <li><a href="https://www.retainmadsen.com/" target="_blank">Website</a></li> </td> <td width="30%" align="left" valign="top"> <p class="contact_entity"><b>Officeholder</b></p> <i><p class="contact_office" style="margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 0em;">Washington State Supreme Court Position 5</p></i> <li><a href="https://www.courts.wa.gov/appellate_trial_courts/supreme/bios/?fa=scbios.display_file&fileID=madsen" target="_blank">Website</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/@ChiefBarbara" target="_blank">Twitter</a></li> </td> <td width="30%" align="left" valign="top"> <p class="contact_entity"><b>Personal</b></p> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011324987677" target="_blank">Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-madsen-3658122b/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></li> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Footnotes">Footnotes</span></h2> <p> <script type="text/javascript"> if(document.getElementsByClassName("reference").length==0) if(document.getElementById('Footnotes')!==null) document.getElementById('Footnotes').parentNode.style.display = 'none'; </script> </p> <div class="references-small"><div class="mobile-columns" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/pages/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=282542"><i>Our Campaigns', "'WA Supreme Court - Pos. 5," accessed July 23, 2021</i></a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bio-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-bio_2-0">2.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-bio_2-1">2.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.courts.wa.gov/appellate_trial_courts/supreme/bios/?fa=scbios.display_file&fileID=madsen"><i>Washington Courts</i>, "Justice Barbara A. Madsen," accessed July 23, 2021</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>We calculated confidence scores by collecting several data points such as party registration, donations, and previous political campaigns.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The five possible confidence scores were: Strong Democrat, Mild Democrat, Indeterminate, Mild Republican, and Strong Republican.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bio-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-Bio_5-0">↑</a></span> <span class="error mw-ext-cite-error" lang="en" dir="ltr">Cite error: Invalid <code><ref></code> tag; no text was provided for refs named <code>Bio</code></span></li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.nawj.org/blog/newsroom/news/washington-state-supreme-court-justice-barbara-a-madsen-named-nawj-justice-joan-dempsey-klein-honoree-of-the-year"><i>NAWJ</i>, "Washington State Supreme Court Justice Barbara A. Madsen Named NAWJ Justice Joan Dempsey Klein Honoree of the Year," August 20, 2020</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20161108/supreme-court-justice-position-5.html"><i>Washington Secretary of State</i>, "November 8, 2016 General Election Results," accessed July 23, 2021</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Background-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Background_8-0">8.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Background_8-1">8.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Background_8-2">8.2</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/politics-government/article81681377.html"><i>The News Tribune</i>, "Controversial school-funding rulings prompt crowded Supreme Court races," June 3, 2016</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Contempt-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-Contempt_9-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/contempt-ruling-ups-ante-in-fight-to-fund-public-schools/"><i>The Seattle Times</i>, "Contempt ruling ups ante in fight to fund public schools," September 12, 2014</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Fine-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-Fine_10-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/supreme-court-orders-100000-per-day-fines-in-mccleary-case/"><i>The Seattle Times</i>, "School funding back on table as court fines state $100,000 a day," August 13, 2015</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Stand-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Stand_11-0">11.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Stand_11-1">11.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Stand_11-2">11.2</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/politics-government/election/article92379982.html"><i>The News Tribune</i>, "Charter-school backers spending $116,000 to try to unseat state Supreme Court justice," July 28, 2016</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Faceoff-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Faceoff_12-0">12.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Faceoff_12-1">12.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/elections/faceoff-state-supreme-court/article_f71e2178-82d1-11e6-b25a-17b2ce162be0.html"><i>Yakima Herald</i>, "Faceoff: State Supreme Court," September 24, 2016</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-quotedisclaimer-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-quotedisclaimer_13-0">13.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-quotedisclaimer_13-1">13.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-14">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20101102/supreme-court-justice-position-5_bycounty.html"><i>Washington Secretary of State</i>, "Supreme Court Justice Position 5 County Results," accessed July 23, 2021</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-15">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=70029"><i>Follow the Money</i>, "Barbara Madsen"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-16">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/results_report.aspx?e=&c=&c2=&t=690&t2=&p=&p2=&y="><i>Washington Secretary of State</i>, "Past Election Results: Position #4, State Supreme Court"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-17">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/results_report.aspx?e=10&c=Madsen&c2=&t=&t2=&p=&p2=&y="><i>Washington Secretary of State</i>, "1998 General Election Results"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-18">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/results_report.aspx?e=&c=&c2=&t=686&t2=&p=&p2=&y="><i>Washington Secretary of State</i>, "1992 General Election Results"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-19">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The seven factors were party registration, donations made to partisan candidates, donations made to political parties, donations received from political parties or bodies with clear political affiliation, participation in political campaigns, the partisanship of the body responsible for appointing the justice, and state trifecta status when the justice joined the court.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-20">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>An Indeterminate score indicates that there is either not enough information about the justice’s partisan affiliations or that our research found conflicting partisan affiliations.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-standfordstudy-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-standfordstudy_21-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2169664"><i>Stanford University</i>, "State Supreme Court Ideology and 'New Style' Judicial Campaigns," October 31, 2012</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-22">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/26/us/26cnd-gay.html?hp&ex=1153972800&en=848ba0545ce8f897&ei=5094&partner=homepage"><i>The New York Times</i>, "Washington Court Upholds Ban on Gay Marriage," July 26, 2006</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-23">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.judicialselection.us/judicial_selection/methods/selection_of_judges.cfm?state="><i>National Center for State Courts</i>, "Judicial Selection Methods," accessed August 18, 2021</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-24">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.judicialselection.us/judicial_selection/methods/selection_of_judges.cfm?state="><i>National Center for State Courts</i>, "Judicial Selection Methods," accessed August 18, 2021</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-25">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.judicialselection.us/judicial_selection/methods/selection_of_judges.cfm?state="><i>National Center for State Courts</i>, "Judicial Selection Methods," accessed August 18, 2021</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-WAconst-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-WAconst_26-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://leg.wa.gov/CodeReviser/Pages/WAConstitution.aspx#ARTICLE_IV"><i>Washington State Legislature</i>, "Washington State Constitution," accessed September 24, 2014</a> <i>(Scroll to Article IV, Section 3)</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-general-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-general_27-0">↑</a></span> <span class="error mw-ext-cite-error" lang="en" dir="ltr">Cite error: Invalid <code><ref></code> tag; no text was provided for refs named <code>general</code></span></li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-28">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.judicialselection.us/judicial_selection/methods/selection_of_judges.cfm?state="><i>National Center for State Courts</i>, "Judicial Selection Methods," accessed August 18, 2021</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div></div> <table class="navbox" cellspacing="0" style=";"><tbody><tr><td 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