However, Whatcom County does have three Superior Court commissioners who handle many of the court's functions. Even with the three commissioners, the county needs more judicial officers, according ...

Whatcom County voters will elect two judges to the Whatcom County Superior Court bench this election season. Superior Court judges handle criminal and civil cases and appeals cases that come from ...

Whatcom County gained a fourth Superior Court judge Friday, Jan. 16, when a former Nooksack tribal judge was sworn into office.

Gov. Jay Inslee appointed Jennifer Slattery to the Whatcom County Superior Court. She will fill a new, fifth seat created by the Legislature in 2024. Slattery has focused her 15-year career on ...

In total, across Whatcom County’s Superior, District and Juvenile courts, roughly 43 people are unrepresented because defense attorneys cannot be found for them, according to Starck Follis ...

Washington State Supreme Court justices won’t immediately decide a challenge to a Whatcom County judge’s ruling that scuttled a 2024 ballot measure challenging a voter-approved property tax to ...

Whatcom County continues to struggle to find enough public defense attorneys to represent people accused of crimes, two months after the Bellingham Herald first reported on the problem.

A 69-year-old man from Sumas was sentenced in Whatcom County Superior Court on Tuesday to five and a half years in prison for sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl.

Whatcom County Superior Court appears set to get additional judges. Two bills, House Bill 1992 and Senate Bill 5828, passed by the Washington State Legislature just prior to adjournment of the ...

A Bellingham family lawyer and pro tem court commissioner will be Whatcom County’s newest Superior Court judge, Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday. Inslee appointed Jennifer E. Slattery to the Whatcom ...

Whatcom County Superior Court Judge Raquel Montoya-Lewis, wearing an eagle feather honoring her Native American heritage, smiles as she speaks with media members after being named to the state ...

Residents in a northwest Washington county are being warned about bogus missed jury duty calls.