State Supreme Court justice to speak at NAACP meeting June 27

Published 10:17 am Thursday, June 18, 2015

The Bremerton National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Branch 1134 will hold their Freedom Fund Banquet on June 27 at 6 p.m. at the Kitsap Golf and Country Club.

Washington State Supreme Court Justice Steven C. Gonzalez will be the guest speaker. The theme of the meeting is “Pursuing liberty in the face of injustice.”

Justice Gonzalez served for ten years as a trial judge on the King County Superior Court before being appointed to the Washington State Supreme Court on Jan. 1, 2012.  As an assistant U.S. Attorney, Gonzalez helped successfully prosecute the international terrorism case U.S. v. Ressam for which he received several awards.

The program starts at 6 p.m. with dinner served at 7 p.m. Awards, music and dinner are part of the event.

The club is located at 3885 NW Golf Club Hill Road, in  Bremerton. Tickets are $65 and may be purchased by calling Lionel Collins at 481-6019, Carl Jakebsson at 434-8591, Tracy Flood at 271-3381 or Bill Mahan 340-2500.