Inslee Names Anne Cruser to Cowlitz County Superior Court August 10, 2017 Governor Jay Inslee today announced the appointment of Anne Cruser to Cowlitz County Superior Court. Cruser will fill a newly established seat on the Cowlitz County Superior Court. She is currently a supervising attorney for the Appellate Division at the Clark County Prosecut...

Cowlitz County Superior Court recently implemented the Statewide Odyssey Electronic Court Records System. It should be noted that electronic filing has not been implemented in Cowlitz County at this time. Original documents still need to be filed with the Clerk for scanning into the system. Due to an increase in questions regarding electronic signa...

Over the past two years, Cowlitz County Superior Court has implemented several significant case processing changes. New trial readiness certificates and case scheduling orders were designed and implemented; as well as the Ex Parte process was changed. In addition, we added a civil priority week and a dedicated domestic relations trial day at the Yo...

Cowlitz County CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) is the voice of abused and neglected children within the dependency court system. The following key position is currently open: 1 – VOLUNTEER ADVOCATE COORDINATOR I (FULL TIME) This position provides support to volunteer advocates on assigned cases and investigates and monitors unassigned cases...

We have added an informative video to our website to help potential jurors understand Unconcious Bias and how it can affect their view of a case. The video was produced by the US District Court for the Western District of Washington who kindly gave their permission for us to share it on our website. You can see the video, as well as other video inf...

Please do not forget the new rules determining which Monday Domestic (Family Law) Docket you can note a case onto. We are no longer are using the check (last) digit to determine which docket the case goes.  It is now determined by the digit to the left of the last dash, since now all new Cowlitz County cases end i...