Washington Governor Inslee Appoints Camara Banfield
Olympia, WA (STL.News) Gov. Jay Inslee appointed Camara Banfield to the Clark County Superior Court. She replaces Judge Bernard Veljacic, who was recently appointed to the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division II.
Since 2004, Banfield has served as a deputy criminal prosecutor with the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, most recently serving as the office’s chief criminal deputy prosecutor. In this role she supervises the criminal division, manages its budget, and shapes the office’s policies and procedures around criminal prosecutions. In 2020, Banfield co-founded the Action Reform Committee to review and reform practices and procedures within the prosecutor’s office, in an effort to confront longstanding racial inequities in the criminal justice system.
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