By Janet Somers, Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES – Judge Brooke Taylor was sworn in on Wednesday afternoon as Clallam County’s third Superior Court judge, the first time in history that the county has had three such judges.
In a brief interview after the ceremony, Taylor said his goals are to resolve the court backlog and “keep things moving.”
He said there would be “no radical changes.”
Taylor will serve an initial one-year term, and faces re-election at the end of 2008 for a four-year term.
Taylor is a former Clallam County prosecuting attorney, court commissioner, and attorney in private practice.
Most recently, he was president of the Washington State Bar Association.
Taylor was elected during the primary in August in which he won a majority of votes – 53 percent – over three other candidates for the job, thereby bypassing the November general election.
The third judgeship was approved in May to help unclogged the jammed county courts.
Courtroom 3, where Taylor will preside starting next week, was overflowing into the aisles for the ceremony.
