The quest to make WA’s legal system more accessible for people with disabilities

The quest to make WA’s legal system more accessible for people with disabilities

Washington State Supreme Court Justice G. Helen Whitener has made disability justice a personal crusade on the court. (Photo provided by Washington State Courts)When G. Helen Whitener arrived in this country at age 16 from Trinidad and Tobago, she did so in a wheelchair.  The right side of Whitener’s body had become paralyzed. She learned it was from a hereditary degenerative back condition that has followed her for the rest of her life. But wit…