Law Day is coming up on May 1, 2025. The Skagit County legal community has a number of events throughout the day to commemorate the occasion, including the Law Day Legal Clinic and the annual Law Day Dinner.

In addition, the Skagit County Superior Court Bench would like to join with courts, judges, and attorneys from around the State, and invite you to reaffirm your oath of attorney in a brief ceremony to start the day on Law Day.

When: May 1, 2025, at 8:40 AM

Where: Skagit County Superior Court, Courtroom 2

What: Gather with local attorneys to recommit to the promise of the rule of law, emphasizing the promises and obligations within the oath of attorney to uphold the state and federal constitutions, and to uphold the rights and liberties of all.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Yost Neidzwski, Presiding Judge
Skagit County Superior Court
Superior Court: 360-416-1200

Skagit County Superior Court is now accepting proposals for new local court rules. To submit a proposed rule, please provide a cover sheet and a written proposal of the rule you are suggesting the court adopt. Changes to current rules should be indicated by striking through (crossing out) existing language and underlining new language in the proposal. Proposals will be accepted until 4:30pm on Thursday, May 1, 2025.

The court will post its proposed local court rules for public comment on May 15, 2025.

You may deliver or email proposals to:

Rosanna Wadkins, Superior Court Administrator
email
205 W. Kincaid Street, Room 202
Mount Vernon, WA 98273

Please see attached the Skagit County Superior Court Schedule for the Judicial Spring Conference, Week of April 28, 2025.  If you have any questions please contact the Superior Court Administrator at rosannaw@co.skagit.wa.us

Judicial Spring Conference 2025.pdf

Attached is Skagit County Superior Court’s Administrative Order No. 24-2, rescinding Administrative Order No. 24-1.

Administrative Order 24-2.pdf

Please see attached Sedro-Woolley Municipal Court Emergency Order

SW Emergency Admin Order 24-01.pdf

Attached is the Skagit County District Court’s Emergency Administrative Order 24-01 in response to the information technology service outage. This applies to District Court and the Municipal Courts of Anacortes, Burlington, and Mount Vernon.

Administrative Order 24-01.pdf

Please see attached Skagit County Superior Court Emergency Administrative Order 24-1 related to the current Washington Courts Outage

Emergency Order 24-1.pdf

Please see attached Skagit County Superior Court's Judicial Retreat Schedule for Friday, December 20, 2024.  If you have any questions about this schedule you may contact the Skagit County Superior Court Manager at katharined@co.skagit.wa.us.

Judicial Retreat-12-20-2024.pdf

Message from Skagit County Superior Court Administration:

The statewide system outage affecting Odyssey and JABS access has not yet been resolved. The Court cannot access the court files or our calendars. Court calendars are still moving forward; however, the Bench is requesting assistance from the bar to ensure we can hear as many matters as possible.

For the Civil, Probate, Guardianship and Domestic dockets – please forward bench copies for all motions, note for calendar, declarations, responses, reply and supporting documents (including service documents) for hearings set on this week’s dockets. This will allow the judicial officers to review the motions in advance and conduct the hearings as scheduled. If bench copies are not provided, the judicial officers will not be aware of which matters are scheduled and will be unable to review the materials.

Please provide bench copies to the 2nd floor window in Court Administration as soon as possible.

If you are an attorney on the Minor Guardianship calendar or the opposing party is either not a member of the Skagit County Bar Association or is self-represented, please provide hard copies of all materials for the pending motion.

Rosanna Wadkins, Administrator
Skagit County Superior Court
Direct: (360) 416-1206

There is a statewide system outage affecting Odyssey and JABS access.  This will greatly affect the Court’s ability to manage its calendars as the Court does not have access to court files.

The Court requests the following:

• Prepare a continuance for all matters that feasibly can be continued
• Provide a physical judge’s copy for matters that must be heard
• Limit filings to emergent matters only

Calendars will be moving slowly, and the Court appreciates everyone’s patience and cooperation as they work through this.  It’s possible this outage will extend throughout the week. The Court will keep you updated on any changes.