In this photograph from 1963, a blindfolded Mary Wood, Thurston County clerk, selects slips of paper with prospective jurors’ names from a hopper and hands them to Judge Charles Wright. Rosemary Ewer transcribes their names. The process was developed to ensure that jury selection was fair and impartial.
Daily Olympian photo, October 1963, State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1986.43.63.10.11.1
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2019