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Supreme Court Justice Position 7: Washington 2026

Debra L. Stephens and Todd A. Bloom are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Supreme Court Justice Position 7 in Washington. This seat is voted statewide, so it is on every Washington ballot.

Debra L. Stephens Incumbent

Debra L. Stephens is the sitting Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, a seat she has held since 2008, per the Washington Courts website. She previously served as a Court of Appeals, Division Three judge and as an adjunct professor at Gonzaga University School of Law, and she is the first woman from Eastern Washington to reach the state's highest court, per her official court biography. A Spokane native, she also spent more than a decade as a local school board director, per the same source.

Priorities: Serving as 'a fierce advocate for an independent judiciary', per her campaign site (justicestephens.com) · Keeping courts open and accessible to everyone, per her campaign site (justicestephens.com) · Basing judicial decisions on law rather than politics, per her campaign site (justicestephens.com)

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Todd A. Bloom

Todd A. Bloom is an attorney, certified public accountant, and financial planner who has spent more than two decades providing legal and tax services to private and public companies, per his campaign website. He served as an active-duty U.S. Navy officer from 2002 to 2013 after earlier service in the Naval Reserve, and he has worked as a FINRA arbitrator, per the same source. He holds a law degree and MBA from Tulane University and a tax law master's degree from the University of Washington, per his campaign website.

Priorities: Applying the law as written rather than as judges might prefer it to read, per his campaign site (electtoddbloom.com) · Upholding the state and federal constitutions, per his campaign site (electtoddbloom.com) · Ensuring every person who appears in court receives a fair and impartial hearing, per his campaign site (electtoddbloom.com)

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