Kevin Naught
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Kevin Naught is a superior court judge for Yakima County Superior Court, Washington. He was appointed to the bench by Gov. Jay Inslee (D) on February 13, 2017.[1]
Naught was the only candidate to file for the primary election on August 1, 2017. He was automatically elected to an unexpired three-year term concluding in 2021 because of this lack of opposition.[2]
Biography
Naught earned his undergraduate degree from Washington State University and his J.D. from Gonzaga University.[1]
At the time of his appointment, Naught was a court commissioner for the Yakima County Superior Court. His professional experience also includes work as an attorney in the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps and in private practice with the firm Finney, Falk, Naught and Remey.[1]
Elections
2017
Naught won re-election without opposition after the candidate filing deadline on May 19, 2017. Naught's seat on the court did not appear on the ballot in 2017.
Primary election
Primaries are held only if more than two candidates file for a position. These contests are nonpartisan in nature.[3] The two candidates who receive the greatest number of votes in the primary advance to the general election. Until 2013, a candidate who won over 50 percent of the vote in the primary was then unopposed in the general election. But the law was amended in 2013. Since that amendment, the top two finishers in a judicial primary must advance to compete with each other in the general election.[4][5][6]
General election
In counties with a population greater than 100,000, if only one superior court candidate files for election for a judgeship, that candidate is automatically elected and the county does not hold a general election for the seat.[7] According to the 2010 census, the following counties had populations greater than 100,000:[8]
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Yakima Herald-Republic, "Governor Appoints Kevin Naught to Yakima County Superior Court Bench," February 13, 2017
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "2017 Candidate Who Have Filed," accessed May 30, 2017
- ↑ Washington State Legislature, "RCW 29A.52.220," accessed April 30, 2014
- ↑ Washington State Legislature, "RCW 29A.36.170," accessed April 30, 2014
- ↑ Washington Courts, "Judicial Election Information," July 13, 2012
- ↑ Washington Courts, "2013 Legislative Summary," accessed July 26, 2016
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Judicial Elections in Washington State," accessed April 30, 2014
- ↑ U.S. Census Bureau, "Washington: Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013," accessed July 24, 2014
