[3] Early on, she was interested in criminal justice, and despite her mother's attempts to persuade her to become a nurse or a teacher, she set her sights on going to law school.
[4] Washington ran in 2016 and won the November General Election on the Democratic Party ticket for the Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff District by only 299 votes, beating her opponent, Bill Veitch, the incumbent District Attorney who ran on the Republican Party ticket.
"It is no secret that Jefferson County, like others around the country, is plagued with overcrowded jails," Washington stated in a press release.
[5] In early 2019, Marshae Jones was indicted by a grand jury on charges of manslaughter, after the death of the fetus she was carrying after being shot after an altercation.
She said in a news conference: "After viewing the facts of this case and the applicable state law I have determined that it is not in the best interest of justice to pursue prosecution of Ms. Jones on the manslaughter charge for which she was indicted by the grand jury.