Susan Owens (born August 19, 1949)[1] is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Washington Supreme Court from 2001 to 2024.
Her father, Frank Owens, was a small town general practitioner, and her mother, Hazel is a retired law enforcement officer.
After graduation in 1971, she attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving her Juris Doctor in 1975.
[2] In September 2017, Owens wrote for the majority when, by a vote of 5-3, it upheld the child pornography trafficking conviction of a seventeen-year-old boy for sexting a picture of himself to an adult woman.
[3][4] In October 2018, Owens concurred when the majority abolished the state's death penalty because they found its racist imposition violated the Constitution of Washington.