(WSB photo: WS Rotary president Ron Palmer and Justice Mary Yu)

By Tracy Record

West Seattle Blog editor

State Supreme Court Justice Mary Yu could keep that job for up to seven more years until the court’s mandatory retirement age of 75.

Instead, she’s hanging up her robes at the end of this year. “I’m not going to work until I die,” she explained in a speech to the Rotary Club of West Seattle today.

Her appearance came two months after announcing her retirement , Justice Yu returned to her former home neighborhood – she said she lived in West Seattle 25 years. Here’s our full video of her speech and the Q&A that followed:

Justice Yu’s appointment to the state’s highest court 11 years ago made history on multiple fronts – the first Asian, the first Latina, and the first LGBTQ

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