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![Andrew Van Winkle has unseated incumbent judge Timothy Hennessy, winning 52% of the vote in the race for Spokane Superior Court Judge Position 11.
In July 2024, a Spokane-based civic organization called People for Effective Government hosted a public forum. They invited all candidates for this race to participate, and Andrew Van Winkle was one of the two candidates who came. We made a video highlighting portions of Mr. Van Winkle’s comments from that night as he responded to questions from the moderator and audience members.
**Watch the video on our website or our YouTube channel**
Our perception of Mr. Van Winkle is that he is humble, curious, and willing to continue learning. These are important characteristics for any public servant.
An article by The Center Square that covered this race included this information about Mr. Van Winkle: “An experienced prosecutor, Van Winkle has served as staff attorney to the Washington State Court of Appeals since 2019. His assignments have included advising judges reviewing cases from all counties in eastern Washington, including Spokane’s Superior Court. Van Winkle has also served over the last four years as a pro-tem court commissioner in Spokane County Superior Court and is familiar with the system from the inside.”
Partial Transcript of the Video
Below are excerpts of Mr. Van Winkle’s comments shown in the video. Watch the full video for all of the context.
1. Alternatives to judicial dispute resolution
“I don’t think that there’s enough focus on mediation and alternatives to judicial dispute resolution. One of the things that makes it harder — and this is a double edge sword, I understand why the legislature did it — but in domestic violence cases the court can’t order the parties to mediate unless the person who is deemed the victim of domestic violence consents to it.”
“The definition of domestic violence is extremely broad, and it’s a very low bar. So you’ll have lawyers who will try to drum up an act of domestic violence — no matter how old — so they don’t have to mediate. So what do you do? You get to charge your client more. So cases don’t get resolved. Or they [continued...]](https://i0.wp.com/wibm.us/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png?w=840&ssl=1)
