Reflecting the state Supreme Court's diversity, one portrait at a time

Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 11:04 p.m.

When Steven González was first named to the Washington state Supreme Court, as an associate justice in 2011, he brought his family to the Temple of Justice – that large, sandstone building in Olympia where the court meets. They were in a hallway looking at portraits of the previous justices – black-robed white men with serious expressions on their faces, staring out from the walls.